Public outrage at the US Forest Service’s proposed commercial photography and videography permit rules has forced the agency to pull back and reconsider.
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/09/26/forest-service-delays-decision-controversial-permit-rules-amid-public-outcry/
delaying a final decision until December 3rd to allow an additional month of public comment
The revisions are usually small, but the practice is troubling, say reporters who cover the president.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/reporters-say-white-house-sometimes-demands-changes-to-press-pool-reports/2014/09/23/e5e6fec8-42d9-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html
Journalists who cover the White House say Obama’s press aides have demanded — and received — changes in press-pool reports before the reports have been disseminated to other journalists
First Amendment advocates say the rules ignore press freedoms and are unconstitutional.
via oregonlive: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/09/forest_service_says_media_need.html#incart_river
“It’s pretty clearly unconstitutional,” said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Alexandria, Va. “They would have to show an important need to justify these limits, and they just can’t.”
The inference here is that a photo taken by a photojournalist for a news organization and one taken by a soldier to ennoble the military really has no difference.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/09/in-focus-media-using-pentagon-pics-as-news-photos-again/
Today, with the possibility of the US becoming active in Iraq again, the prospect of turning our eyes, or our media’s eyes over to the government in order to best illustrate the military’s agenda has the feel of déjà vu
As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/eppb-icloud/
That software is sold by Moscow-based forensics firm Elcomsoft and intended for government agency customers
After a trove of nude photos of celebrities was posted online, some champions of anything-goes social media were rueful.
The episode “should be treated like a sex crime, a privacy invasion taken to an extreme,” said Jules Polonetsky, executive director of the Future of Privacy Forum, an advocacy group based in Washington. “Sites allowing the sharing of these pictures can and should be taking proactive action to remove these pictures.”
Nydia Tisdale, a citizen journalist, was invited to a GOP rally in Atlanta, but State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens demanded that she (and not other, more friendly press) stop recording his …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/08/28/invited-citizen-journalist-at.html
Nydia Tisdale, a citizen journalist, was invited to a GOP rally in Atlanta, but State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens demanded that she (and not other, more friendly press) stop recording his speech
The militants had pressed the United States to provide several million dollars for the release of James Foley, an American journalist killed in retaliation for recent airstrikes in Iraq.
The United States — unlike several European countries that have funneled millions to the terror group to spare the lives of their citizens — refused to pay
Reporters, editors and those who monitor the freedom of the press describe a harsh environment for reporters, in the United States and abroad.
In a series of interviews on Wednesday, reporters, editors and those who monitor the freedom of the press described a harsh environment for reporters both at home and abroad, complicated by changes in the way that journalists work, and a change in the way they are viewed by both governments, and the public.
The lawyer for the National Press Photographers Association who is on the ground in Ferguson alongside photojournalists has just filed a formal letter of complaint, as well as a request for an official investigation, into the “unlawful and unprofessional
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppas-lawyer-requests-investigation-ferguson-police-gun-pointing-incident
“This dangerous action was in response to photojournalist Raffe Lazarian asking [the police officer] the simple question, ‘Which way do I need to go in order to get to the media area?’” Osterreicher wrote.
We asked some of the biggest stakeholders in the Internet as we know it to lay out ways we can fix it. We are excited to present you with six thoughtful solutions to problems urgently facing the future of the Internet.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-save-the-net/
We asked some of the Net’s biggest stakeholders and thought leaders to lay out ways we can maintain the Internet as a home for innovation, community, and freely exchanged information. We are excited to present you with these six takes on what could go wrong—and how to bring us back from the brink.
A video posted online today by The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows a militant in the act of beheading American freelance photojournalist James W. Foley.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/photojournalist-james-foley-executed-isis-video
The YouTube video titled “A Message To #America (from the #IslamicState) shows a barefoot man standing, and on his knees, who is identified as Foley. He is wearing an orange shirt and pants. Standing beside him is a black-clad, masked ISIS militant. During the five-minute video Foley was forced to read an anti-American statement in which he was made to say that his “real killer” is America.
Militant group posts video purporting to show beheading of American photographer.
Foley, 40, was working in Syria for the Boston-based news Web site GlobalPost when he disappeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2012.
I’d like to focus on a few main topics in relation to the aftermath of the police killing of Michael Brown, a young unarmed black man: the representation of black men in the media, the “Don’t shoot me” extended arms pose, the look of militarized police, and police targeting of reporters
These arrests are a gross violation of the reporters’ First Amendment rights, and attempts to prevent journalists from lawfully doing their job on the streets of Ferguson are illegal.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/08/19/documenting-the-arrests-of-jou.html
We will be documenting each journalist arrest below and are filing public records requests for the arrest records of the journalists who have been assaulted, detained, and arrested in Ferguson
An Afghan TV channel said Matthew Rosenberg was targeted for a controversial election story.
Matthew Rosenberg, 40, said Tuesday night that he was summoned to the attorney general’s office in the afternoon and asked numerous questions about the story. He said he rejected requests to reveal his sources and was then told to return the next day with a lawyer to face more questions.
Do you have dreams of being an outspoken reviewer of photography books? Certain provinces of Iran might not be the best place for you to launch that
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/18/photographers-iran-sentenced-75-lashes-giving-officials-photo-book-bad-reviews/
John Moore, a photojournalist with Getty Images based in New York, is in Monrovia to document what has quickly become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. He speaks with TIME’s Andrew Katz about what he’s seen on the ground. This interview, conducted over email, has been lightly edited for clarity.
I had never witnessed police treat journalist like this in the four years I worked as a crime reporter in South Florida. Some officers have tried to keep me away from crime scenes, but never stopped me from covering a story altogether.
The Obama administration has prosecuted more people under the 1917 Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined. Risen called it “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation
Eyewitness Jelani Cobb, reporting for the New Yorker: “What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe; the first wave of flash grenades and tear ga…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/ferguson-police-response-a-m.html
What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe; the first wave of flash grenades and tear gas had played as a prelude to the appearance of an unusually large armored vehicle, carrying a military-style rifle mounted on a tripod