via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Foreign-reporters-not-welcome-in-Turkey
Another difference was the way lots of people looked at foreign media. Before Gezi, it was easy to be a foreign reporter here, but now we’d somehow become responsible for all that ailed Turkey. The government has fed many a conspiracy theory.
A top Russian telecoms official warns of a possible Twitter ban
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-telecoms-watchdog-warns-of-possible-twitter-ban/2014/05/16/a8c8bf98-77db-4bbb-8efe-d25a75de84ad_story.html?wprss=rss_world
In an interview with a local newspaper Friday, Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of the government’s telecommunications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, called Twitter a “political” tool that undermines the state’s authority.
Photographer Jack Hill and reporter Anthony Lloyd of The Times of London escaped to Turkey after they were kidnapped, beaten and shot by a rebel gang in Syria, the newspaper has reported. The two journalists had been in Aleppo accompanied by bodyguards, a
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/05/kidnapped-beaten-shot-syria-photographer-writer-manage-escape.html
Photographer Jack Hill and reporter Anthony Lloyd of The Times of London
In producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama’s visual image.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/05/reality-show-president-inside-the-white-house-pr-machine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
Discrete street photography is not really what Mikel Patrick Avery did. In fact, he put a sign next to his X-series cameras and wrote DO NOT LOOK HERE on it. The result can be seen in the video above.
I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop. The
via DIY Photography: http://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/?_ga=1.68494865.1044958753.1390512303
I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop.
Link: BuzzFeed and CBS News journalists detained and freed in Ukraine | Poynter.
CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward and BuzzFeed correspondent Mike Giglio were among the journalists detained at checkpoints in Ukraine Friday
This month’s cover story of National Geographic, about how to meet growing worldwide demand for food, is the story that got photographer George Steinmetz in trouble last June, and he’s still stinging from the experience. Caught in the political crossfire
“It was quite a surprise to me,” says Steinmetz, who is renowned for the beautiful aerial landscapes he shoots all over the world, and who is used to encounters with authorities. “I’ve been detained in Iran and Yemen, and questioned about spying, but never arrested. And then I get thrown in jail in America.”
Link: Fond du Lac principal censors student news magazine’s censorship photo illustration – SPLC News
Fond du Lac Principal Jon Wiltzius said he wasn’t sure what the message was with that image.
“The lack of understanding of knowing what the message was made it very clear that that wasn’t something that we should print in our newspaper,” Wiltzius said.
Accusations that the country’s spy agency was involved in the attack have led to a divisive debate and demands that a television station be shut down.
At issue are claims aired by Geo News, Mr. Mir’s employer and the largest station, that the military’s powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, was behind the April 19 attack in which Mr. Mir was shot six times as he traveled to a Karachi television studio.
Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine released the American journalist Simon Ostrovsky on Thursday, three days after he was taken prisoner in Slovyansk while reporting for Vice News.
via The Lede: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/american-journalist-released-by-ukraine-separatists/?partner=rss&emc=rss
‘They had my picture, they were looking for me’
Four journalists found on the Turkish border with Syria after being kidnapped last June by al-Qaeda-linked group.
“Edouard Elias , Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres are in good health, despite the extremely harsh conditions of their captivity. They will arrive in France in the next hours,” the statement read.
The City of Baltimore and its police department have agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a claim of unlawful seizure and destruction of cell phone videos that belonged to a citizen who allegedly recorded police arresting and beating another person. Police ha
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/04/baltimore-pay-250k-videos-deleted-police-vindication-photographers-rights.html
The exhibition will present work in a variety of formats, from traditional 4×5 inch large format photography to toy cameras, phone cameras, and even underwater GoPro cameras and includes Jonas Yip, Wednesday Aja, Deborah Arlook, Tami Bahat, Magela Crosignani, Christopher Hall, Tracy Fleischman Morgenthau, Izumi Tanaka, Juliet Deissroth, Kristen Perman, and Sabine Pearlman
The lawsuit claims that a reporter and a photographer were detained by military police officers outside a General Dynamics tank plant after taking photographs of it.
Ms. Fraser was handcuffed and referred to “in terms denoting the masculine gender,” the lawsuit said. When she objected, the lawsuit said, she was told, “You say you are a female, I’m going to go under your bra.”
Photojournalist Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, kidnapped along with reporter Javier Espinosa in northern Syria last September, was freed along with Espinosa on Saturday night near Tal Abiyad.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/kidnapped-photojournalist-reporter-freed-syria
Photojournalist Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, kidnapped along with reporter Javier Espinosa in northern Syria last September, was freed along with Espinosa on Saturday night near Tal Abiyad.
Restrictions on reporters in China complicates coverage of Michelle Obama’s visit
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-first-lady-lauds-free-press-questions-about-her-media-access/2014/03/25/349cc544-c463-4dee-8fdf-cb2c69f949e6_story.html?wprss=rss_world
Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, said that when U.S. presidents or first ladies travel abroad “they bring a demonstration of what a free press means with them.”
“If there’s no press, that’s a demonstration,” he said. “If there’s a lively press that gets what it needs, that’s a demonstration. . . .What happens says something about what is the American concept of a free press.”
Link: Defamation, Girls, and pictures through a window: recent legal news affecting photography and copyright | dvafoto
There’ve been a bunch of legal developments in the world of photography and copyright in the past couple weeks. Here are a few things that have been on my radar that all have relevance to freelance and staff photographers in the US:
Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign (no relation) boastfully compared Hotmail’s privacy framework to Gmail’s, condemning Google for “reading your mail.” Now, …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/03/21/microsoft-has-always-reserved.html
Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign (no relation) boastfully compared Hotmail’s privacy framework to Gmail’s, condemning Google for “reading your mail.” Now, Microsoft has admitted that it scoured the Hotmail messages belonging the contacts of a suspected leaker in order to secure his arrest, and points out that Hotmail’s terms of service have always given Microsoft the right to read your personal mail for any of a number nebulously defined, general reasons.
The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has written a letter ask
via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogseditor/57710028-71/letter-conference-font-church.html.csp
Utah SPJ understands Temple Square is private property, according to the letter. It seeks “only what the church has routinely allowed in the past: cameras free to enter Temple Square and tell the story of General Conference.”