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
Today the National Press Photographers Association sent a strong letter of protest to the Ferguson, MO, chief of police regarding the unwarranted arrest and detention of journalists who are coving the town’s unfolding national story, as well as the depart
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-protests-ferguson-police-tactics-disrespect-constitutional-rights
NPPA’s legal counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher wrote, “In any free country the balance between providing police protection with integrity and over-zealous enforcement is delicate. It is one thing for officers to act when there is reasonable suspicion; it is quite another to abuse that discretion by chilling free speech and creating a climate of fear and distrust under the pretext of safety and security.”
A news crew, clearly no threat or impediment to the cops, films from a verge in Ferguson, Missouri. A pop and a cloud of white smoke marks the arrival of a tear gas canister at their feet, and the …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/video-of-ferguson-police-gassi.html
By announcing the separation of Google photo from the Google plus social media platform, the giant search company has clearly announced its intention to intensify the battle for domination of the online photo space
Austin Tice’s parents remember their son, who went missing while reporting from Syria two years ago.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/13/austin-tice-two-years-later/
Two years ago, Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine who had been working as a freelance journalist and contributing articles to The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other news outlets was kidnapped while reporting from Syria
Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson has covered a number of intense situations, including the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. But it was just
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/12/photojournalist-attacked-covering-riots-looting-missouri/
Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson has covered a number of intense situations, including the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. But it was just this past weekend, in the 21,000-resident town of Ferguson, Missouri that he faced one of his scariest moments yet.
Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist for the Russian state agency Rossiya Segodnya (also called RIA Novosti) has been missing since August 5, when he last reported to his agency while covering the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and military forces s
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/photographer-reported-missing-eastern-ukraine.html
Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist for the Russian state agency Rossiya Segodnya (also called RIA Novosti) has been missing since August 5
When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/
When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.
Iran says the case of a jailed Washington Post reporter is a domestic issue.
Rezaian, 38, and a photojournalist arrested at the same time are dual Iranian and American citizens. Rezaian’s wife, Iranian journalist Yeganeh Salehi, is also being held. At his family’s request, The Post is not publishing the name of the photojournalist.
There is no doubt the integrity of our communications and the privacy of our online activities have been the biggest casualty of the NSA’s unfettered surveillance of our digital lives. But the ongoing revelations of government eavesdropping have had a pro
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/the-big-costs-of-nsa-surveillance-that-no-ones-talking-about/
ongoing revelations of government eavesdropping has had a profound impact on the economy, the security of the internet and the credibility of the U.S. government’s leadership when it comes to online governance
Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian and three others believed detained;
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/post-reporter-other-americans-appear-to-have-been-detained-in-iran/2014/07/24/1a13511e-1356-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html
The other two American citizens detained with them work as freelance photojournalists. Officials have not yet identified them by name.
A press staffer almost always attends when reporters sit down with administration officials.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/and-minder-makes-three-for-white-house-interviews-its-never-just-one-on-one/2014/07/23/678b5e34-1084-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html
the White House — perhaps the single most intensely covered institution in the United States — may be the most diligent user of the chaperoned interview. Almost every officially sanctioned exchange between reporters and the proverbial “senior administration officials” is conducted in the presence of a press staffer, even when the interview is “on background,” meaning the source will not be identified by name
Some Israelis, incensed by reporting on Gaza they call overly sympathetic to Palestinians, have started to take their frustration out on correspondents.
That includes “forcible attempts to prevent journalists and TV crews from carrying out their news assignments,” the association said
Access to the president continues to be limited in ways not seen in previous administrations.
via POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/barack-obama-locks-out-the-press-again-109316.html
How many people Obama met with was a secret. How much they paid to get in was a secret. Finding out who the people were? Forget it. Even a general account of what the president said to them? Not from this White House.