In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.
In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.
The death of the journalist, Naji Jerf, on Sunday, came a day before he and his family were to fly to France, where they were seeking asylum.
The killing of the journalist, Naji Jerf, in Gaziantep, Turkey, happened Sunday, one day before he and his family were scheduled to fly to France, where they were seeking asylum. Unconfirmed news reports from Gaziantep said he had been shot to death.
The Turkish Photojournalists’ Association (TFMD) released a written statement on Monday saying veteran photographer Ara Güler shouldn’t be criticized for taking photographs of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family in Erdoğan’s mansion in İstanbul’s Kısıklı neighborhood on Saturday.
A Bahraini court has jailed for 10 years a freelance photographer who covered demonstrations and revoked his citizenship after convicting him of “terrorism”, Reporters Without Borders said
Photos and videos have never been treated as a subject’s intellectual property under U.S. Copyright law. They are always owned by the photographer or his/her employer. Demands for full or partial ownership equate to the taking of our members’ work in exchange for a glimpse of a performer’s.
The decision to drop charges against Robert Stolarik for interfering with an arrest he had been photographing in the Bronx in 2012 and instead to prosecute an arresting officer came after prosecutors scrutinized the physical evidence: Mr. Stolarik’s digital images.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) announced this week that it has joined in on a new lawsuit filed against the state of Wyoming over
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/03/nppa-sues-wyoming-for-threatening-photographers-rights-with-recent-law/
The laws make it a crime for people to “collect resource data” (e.g. a photo) from “open land” if the person intends to submit that data to a federal or state agency. Photographers immediately reacted to the law, arguing that the overreaching terms infringe upon photographers rights.
Donald Trump is lashing out at an Associated Press photographer over photos of empty chairs at a Trump speech in South Carolina. The presidential
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/09/25/donald-trump-calls-photojournalist-a-fing-thief-over-photo-of-empty-chairs/
“The photographer [Mic Smith] is a f***ing thief,” Trump said in an interview with The Daily Mail. “Tell them they’re a fraud, whoever took it. I just got killed on that thing, and it was just really unfair. It’s godd**n unfair.”
The KARMA POLICE program is detailed in newly released Snowden docs published on The Intercept; it began as a project to identify every listener to every Internet radio station (to find people list…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/09/25/karma-police-gchqs-plan-to.html
The KARMA POLICE program is detailed in newly released Snowden docs published on The Intercept; it began as a project to identify every listener to every Internet radio station (to find people listening to jihadi radio) and grew into an ambitious plan to identify every Web user and catalog their activities from porn habits to Skype contacts.
In 2012 Austin Tice answered a calling: to become a war photographer and tell the world what was happening in Syria. But then he went missing.
via Texas Monthly: http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-road-to-damascus/
IN 2012 HOUSTON NATIVE AUSTIN TICE HEEDED A CALLING TO BECOME A JOURNALIST IN WAR-RAVAGED SYRIA. HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, STORIES, AND TWEETS SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE CONFLICT—UNTIL ONE DAY THEY STOPPED.
Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there
via A Photo Editor: http://aphotoeditor.com/2015/09/02/know-your-rights-photographers-2/
Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply.
Earlier this morning, CNN announced that it would show the video once every hour. The news organization published it online with a warning. The New York Times has not shared the video but did link to a YouTube version of it in the main story.
“They now even flout their own laws in the process” of quashing dissent, Boumedouha said.
Photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was murdered on July 31 in Mexico City, which had been considered a safe haven for reporters fleeing from threats in other parts of the country. On August 15, more than 500 international journalists and writers asked Mexico
Four women, among them human rights activist Nadia Vera, were also murdered along with the 31-year-old photojournalist Espinosa in what Francisco Goldman in The New Yorker called “The Colonia Narvarte massacre” after the name of the middle-class neighborhood were they were killed, execution-style.
When Feidin Santana filmed Walter Scott’s death, it marked a turning point in the US civil rights movement – and in Santana’s life. He and others who have taken the law into their own hands tell their stories
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/15/filming-police-violence-walter-scott-michael-brown-shooting
When Feidin Santana filmed Walter Scott’s death, it marked a turning point in the US civil rights movement – and in Santana’s life. He and others who have taken the law into their own hands tell their stories
CAIRO: “I miss my camera, I miss the reason for my scourge and calamity, I miss holding it between my hands to see the life through it…I miss smelling it in the morning before my coffee time, and yes- unfortunately- I miss my work…which costs me days of my life.”
Mexican authorities recently announced the arrest of a known criminal for the execution-style murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four others, according to reports by The Guardian and Al Jazeera. The killings occurred July 31 in a Mexico City apa
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/08/suspect-arrested-in-murder-of-photojournalist-ruben-espinosa.html
Meanwhile, authorities are still searching for two other suspects seen on a surveillance video, leaving the apartment building around the time of the murders. Prosecutors say the three men shown in the video left the scene in a car that belonged to one of the female victims, according to the press reports.
A coalition of 53 press and open government organizations, including the Poynter Institute, have “once again” urged President Obama “to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.”
When St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson ran into reporter Paul Hampel last night in Ferguson, Missouri, the two agreed that something felt off on West Florissant Avenue as the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death drew to a close.
“We both agreed that it was the best time to put on our vests at that point,” Carson said.
The Defense Department’s new manual on the law of war could severely hinder the work of journalists covering armed conflicts.
The Defense Department earlier this summer released a comprehensive manual outlining its interpretation of the law of war. The 1,176-page document, the first of its kind, includes guidelines on the treatment of journalists covering armed conflicts that would make their work more dangerous, cumbersome and subject to censorship. Those should be repealed immediately.