prison – “Police should not punish me for photographing their brutality, they should punish themselves,” says journalist
via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/05/12/after-496-days-in-prison-photojournalist-ziada-speaks-out/
“Police should not punish me for photographing their brutality, they should punish themselves,” says journalist
In wake of the events taking place in Baltimore, MD NPPA General Counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, has put together a document with advice on how to cover high conflict news stories.Issues covered:
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/practical-advice-about-covering-high-conflict-news-stories
In wake of the events taking place in Baltimore, MD NPPA General Counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, has put together a document with advice on how to cover high conflict news stories.
In a video shot by City Paper Managing Editor Baynard Woods you can see Giordano, wearing a green jacket, and a protester, both of whom had just been knocked to the ground by police, being beaten as Woods yells, “He’s a photographer! He’s press!”
The proposals made to the association members include the president taking questions from the press “on a regular basis, no less than once per week” and being “available in response to significant news developments.”
The letter from Markson Sparks demands media outlets pay $10,000 to run the video that has gathered millions of page views on multiple YouTube web pages.
Facebook’s growing monopolistic power over news organizations’ traffic + their censorship policies + their new plan to get news orgs to publish directly on the site all adds up to a m…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/04/13/facebooks-new-news-power-is.html
Facebook’s growing monopolistic power over news organizations’ traffic + their censorship policies + their new plan to get news orgs to publish directly on the site all adds up to a major threat to press freedom
It was a month ago that a Texas lawmaker sparked a hoopla by proposing a bill that would limit the photography and filming of officers. If passed, anyone
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/04/12/texas-bill-limiting-the-photography-of-cops-dropped-after-loud-public-outcry/
Public outcry was swift and loud, and people even began sending death threats to the representative’s office. Good news today: the bill is now dead.
A New York State appeals court court has upheld a lower court ruling that rejected privacy invasion claims against fine-art photographer Arne Svenson. But the court has also challenged the New York state legislature to consider legislation to prohibit wha
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/arne-svenson-exonerated-on-appeal-in-privacy-invasion-case.html
But the court has also challenged the New York state legislature to consider legislation to prohibit what Svenson did: photograph his neighbors inside their apartments through their un-curtained windows.
The tide may be turning on this issue, though. Both Colorado and California legislators recently introduced bills to protect those who film police
Photojournalist Andy Spyra was barred from entering Turkey on March 28 because Turkish authorities suspected he was an Islamic militant, according to press reports. Spyra, who was on assignment for Der Spiegel, was stopped at an Istanbul airport, searched
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/photojournalist-andy-spyra-deported-from-turkey-on-allegations-hes-a-jihadist.html
Photojournalist Andy Spyra was barred from entering Turkey on March 28 because Turkish authorities suspected he was an Islamic militant, according to press reports. Spyra, who was on assignment for Der Spiegel, was stopped at an Istanbul airport, searched, detained and deported to Germany the next day. While in Turkish custody, the German General Consulate protested his detention and attempted to explain that he was a journalist.
But before journalists can use the reports, they are first filtered through White House officials, who distribute them to the press corps via email. This has led to cases of censorship from an administration that has occasionally tried to squelch certain details. In October, The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi reported that White House officials demanded that reporters cut out pieces of their dispatches, including details of the president’s appearance on “The Tonight Show” and one of Michelle Obama’s trips to the gym.
In both cases, the reporters acquiesced to the changes before the White House sent along the reports to all the recipients of the email list.
A week after Los Angeles agreed to train its law enforcement that public photography is not a crime, a bill has been proposed in Texas that would make it
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/13/texas-bill-makes-it-a-crime-to-photograph-police-from-within-25-feet-of-them/
House Bill 2918, filed in the Texas House of Representatives this past Tuesday by Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), would make pointing a camera at police from within 25 feet a class B misdemeanor. Furthermore, citizens who carry a handgun would not be able to photograph officers from within 100 feet.
Agency researchers conducted a multi-year effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, presenting their findings at an secret annual “Jamboree.”
via The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/
RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads
Los Angeles County has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to photographers and instruct sheriff’s deputies to respect First Amendment rights.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/l-pays-50k-harassed-photogs-agrees-train-sheriff-deputies.html
The settlement stems from a lawsuit the ACLU filed on behalf of the photographers in 2011. The suit alleged that L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputies violated the photographers’ First and Fourth Amendment rights “by detaining, searching and questioning them for nothing more than taking photographs of Metro Rail turnstiles, oil refineries and traffic whizzing by a court house.”
The federal government has agreed to pay The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio $18,000 to settle a lawsuit over the detention of two journalists last year at a military tank plant, the Associated Press reports. In settling the case, the government admitted
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/feds-pay-toledo-blade-18000-arrest-photographer-reporter.html
In settling the case, the government admitted no wrongdoing. And the newspaper agreed not to publish photos the journalists took of the plant on the day they were detained, the AP report says.
Ferguson, Missouri, police officers “frequently infringe on residents’ First Amendment rights, interfering with their right to record police activities and making enforcement decisions based on the content of individuals’ expression,” according to a repor
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/doj-report-blasts-ferguson-police-first-amendment-violations.html
The DOJ says in the report that FPD arrests citizens “for a variety of protected conduct,” including talking back to officers, recording public police activities, and lawful protest.
The report cites a number of examples, including several involving recent arrests of citizens who recorded–or attempted to record–police carrying out their duties in public.
Open government advocates blasted the Bush administration for using off-the-books email accounts, so it’s only fair that Hilary Clinton finds herself in deep doodoo for doing the same.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/03/02/hillary-clinton-exclusively-us.html
Open government advocates blasted the Bush administration for using off-the-books email accounts to conduct official business, so it’s only fair Hillary Clinton today finds herself in deep sh*t after the revelation she exclusively used a private email account while serving as secretary of state. When federal officials use non-archived email services, it’s a big red flag.
One of the biggest stories of 2015 will easily be ISIS and its rampage through Iraq and Syria and efforts to defeat the radical group.
via San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/27/isis-photo-beheading-front-page/?#article-copy
“I felt – and feel – very strongly that we should not have used the still image from the Islamic State group’s video,” Photo editor David Poller said. “My argument is we are helping that group’s propaganda effort when we show kneeling victims in orange jumpsuits moments before their deaths. Photos of the victims’ families in Egypt reacting to the news of the mass killings were available.
The outgoing Attorney General raised eyebrows when answering a question about his Justice Department’s notorious crackdown on leaks, and by extension the press–most notably New York Times rep…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/18/the-james-risen-case-and-eric.html
Along the way, we found out that the government had spied on virtually every aspect of James Risen’s digital life from phone calls, to emails, to credit card statements, bank records and more. (By the way, we still have no idea how they got this information. That’s secret.)
Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it out. That’s the warning Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gave at a talk recently, saying that
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/02/17/print-your-photos-or-risk-losing-them-to-the-digital-dark-age-internet-pioneer-warns/
Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it out. That’s the warning Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gave at a talk recently, saying that vast amounts of digital information may soon be lost in a new digital “dark age.”