Category: Access & Censorship
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Reading the Trump “First 50 Days” Photo Album – Reading The Pictures
Reading the Trump “First 50 Days” Photo Album – Reading The Pictures If anything, the photo album brings Trump’s guardedness, and the quality and amount of White House visual disclosure, into greater relief. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/03/trump-first-50-days-photo-album/ You would think that the gift of this photo album, commemorating Trump’s first fifty days in office…
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Mannie Garcia Wins Settlement in Police Lawsuit | NPPA
Mannie Garcia Wins Settlement in Police Lawsuit Photojournalist Mannie Garcia has won a $45,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit resulting from his unlawful arrest by Montgomery County police in Maryland in 2011. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/mannie-garcia-wins-settlement-police-lawsuit Photojournalist Mannie Garcia has won a $45,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit resulting from his unlawful arrest by…
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The Eyes of San Francisco in a Texas Courtroom: The Sequel – The New York Times
The Eyes of San Francisco in a Texas Courtroom: The Sequel After a Times reporter’s live-tweeting about Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in Dallas broke courthouse rules, he wrote about it. Unexpectedly, a court officer responded. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/insider/the-eyes-of-san-francisco-in-a-texas-courtroom-the-sequel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 A few weeks after a security officer nearly booted him from a federal courthouse in Dallas for live-tweeting Mark…
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China’s Response to Reports of Torture: ‘Fake News’ – The New York Times
China’s Response to Reports of Torture: ‘Fake News’ The government has long denounced articles by Western news organizations as biased and dishonest, but Beijing has now adopted a very Western term to describe them. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world/asia/china-fake-news-xie.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, mimicked Mr. Trump’s characteristic bluster — and his fondness…
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Telling the Stories of Egypt’s Endangered Journalists – The New York Times
Telling the Stories of Egypt’s Endangered Journalists Photojournalists like Shawkan have been imprisoned for three years since Egyptian authorizes cracked down on protests, and Mohammed Elshamy feels it is his duty to make their stories heard. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/telling-the-stories-of-egypts-endangered-journalists/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 I was on a bus heading back to New York when I got news from…
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Cambodian Government Cites Trump in Threatening Foreign News Outlets – The New York Times
Cambodian Government Cites Trump in Threatening Foreign News Outlets Critics said the warning could herald a new effort to suppress free speech by authoritarian governments emboldened by the U.S. president’s words. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/world/asia/cambodia-trump-press-freedom.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The Facebook comments “show pretty clearly that as soon as there are perceptions that the United States has wavered on its commitment…
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Vice goes inside Syria to show what media censorship really looks like – Poynter
Vice goes inside Syria to show what media censorship really looks like – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2017/vice-goes-inside-syria-to-show-what-media-censorship-really-looks-like/449927/ Central to it all is Assad’s control of the media. In one believe-it-or-not…
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Trump Calls the News Media the ‘Enemy of the American People’ – The New York Times
Trump Calls the News Media the ‘Enemy of the American People’ Even from a president who routinely castigates journalists, the president’s Twitter post was a striking escalation in his attacks on the press. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/business/trump-calls-the-news-media-the-enemy-of-the-people.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Even by the standards of a president who routinely castigates journalists — and who on Thursday devoted much of a…
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Reuters Editor to Staff: Cover Trump Admin Like Other Unwelcoming Governments | PDNPulse
Reuters Editor to Staff: Cover Trump Admin Like Other Unwelcoming Governments | PDNPulse Reuters has published a message from Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler to his staff that outlines how the news agency should cover the Trump administration in a “challenging” climate. “It’s not every day that a U.S. president calls journalists ‘among the most d via…
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Donald Trump and the Theater of Access – The New York Times
Donald Trump and the Theater of Access The press may not yet know how to cover the president, but the president knows exactly what to do with the press: Humiliate them. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/magazine/donald-trump-and-the-theater-of-access.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Reporters had been following Trump all year. Early rallies had been covered as curiosities; later ones as political mass spectacles. But on…
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Police Intimidation Watch: Six Journalists Charged with Felonies on Inauguration Day | PDNPulse
Police Intimidation Watch: Six Journalists Charged with Felonies on Inauguration Day | PDNPulse Six journalists arrested and charged with felony rioting while covering inauguration protests; worries about press freedom grow. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/01/police-intimidation-watch-six-journalists-charged-felonies-inauguration-day.html Journalists arrested at the January 20 protests in Washington, DC include Shay Horse, identified by The Guardian as an independent photojournalist and…
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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages | Technology | The Guardian
WhatsApp design feature means some encrypted messages could be read by third party Trade-off between security and usability unlikely to permit systematic surveillance, experts say via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages Privacy campaigners said the vulnerability is a “huge threat to freedom of speech” and warned it can be used by government agencies to snoop on users…
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No End In Sight – On The Media – WNYC
Not Found | WNYC Studios | Podcasts WNYC Studios is leading the new golden age in audio with high quality storytelling that informs, inspires and delights millions of curious and highly engaged listeners. WNYC Studios produces award-winning podcasts including Radiolab, Here’s the Thing with via WNYC Studios: http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-01-06 British journalist John Cantlie has been a…
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Family Of Kidnapped Houston Photojournalist Remains Optimistic – Houston Public Media
Family Of Kidnapped Houston Photojournalist Remains Optimistic | Houston Public Media This is the fifth holiday season that Austin Tice hasn’t been at home with his family here in Houston. Here’s a look at the latest on the photojournalist who went missing in Syria more than four years ago. via Houston Public Media: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/12/30/181652/family-of-kidnapped-houston-photojournalist-remains-optimistic/ This…
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Republicans Propose $2,500 Fine for Photography on House Floor
Republicans Propose $2,500 Fine for Photography on House Floor House Republicans have put forward a proposal to fine representatives who shoot photos or videos on the floor of the chamber — a move widely viewed as a via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/12/28/republicans-propose-2500-fine-photography-house-floor/ House Republicans have put forward a proposal to fine representatives who shoot photos or videos…
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Committee to Project Journalists Issues Advisory for Journalists Crossing U.S. Border | PDNPulse
Committee to Protect Journalists Issues Advisory for Journalists Crossing U.S. Border | PDNPulse Journalists are being stopped at the U.S. border, where they are subject to questioning and warrantless searches of their belongings. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/committee-project-journalists-issues-advisory-journalists-crossing-u-s-border.html According to the advisory, securing computers, phones and other electronic devices is particularly important because there is still a…
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150 Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras | WIRED
150 Filmmakers Want Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras. Here’s Why It’s high time camera companies give photojournalists and filmmakers the same protections built into your iPhone and WhatsApp. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/200-filmmakers-ask-nikon-canon-sell-encrypted-cameras/ “When you’re in the field filming and your camera is taken by authorities, that footage is completely vulnerable,” Poitras says. “That’s where…
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Steve McCurry: Egypt Must Drop All Charges Against Jailed Photojournalist | TIME
Steve McCurry: Egypt Must Drop Charges Against Photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, has been held for three years via Time: http://time.com/4599678/steve-mccurry-shawkan/ Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, has been held for three years and could face the death penalty
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Panama Papers journalists around the globe are being threatened – Poynter
Panama Papers journalists around the globe are being threatened – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/panama-papers-journalists-around-the-globe-are-being-threatened/440941/ “Be careful,” a friendly source told Aksar. “Look out for yourself and be careful what you…
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Canadian Photojournalist Denied Entry into the US, Has Phones Searched
Canadian Photojournalist Denied Entry into the US, Has Phones Searched For award-winning Canadian photojournalist Ed Ou, his October 1st trip to the United States started out like any other assignment. But while his plan was via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/11/30/canadian-photojournalist-denied-entry-us-phones-searched/ For award-winning Canadian photojournalist Ed Ou, his October 1st trip to the United States started out like…