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: Risen: Obama administration is this generation’s ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’ | Poynter.
The administration’s aggressive prosecutions have created “a de facto Official Secrets Act,” Risen said, and the media has been “too timid” in responding.
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.”
What the administration doesn’t seem to be considering is that the press, beyond the venting and the resentment, is going to raise its game.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/if-you-cant-join-em-outshoot-em-dharapak-ap-take-on-white-house-over-dalai-lama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
What the administration doesn’t seem to be considering, however, are the consequences of preventing the visual media from creating and distributing the same boring snap of the two men facing each other. Of those consequences, 0ne is that the press, beyond the venting and the resentment, is going to raise its game
Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is ‘vague and obstructive’ say critics
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/hungary-law-photography-permission-take-pictures
Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is ‘vague and obstructive’ say critics
I find it interesting how politicized and message-focused the job of White House photographer seems to have become.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/methinks-the-white-house-doth-visually-protest-too-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
I find it interesting how politicized and message-focused the job of White House photographer seems to have become
Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting the commercial use of drones amounts to “mud being flung in their face.” Gun
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/drone-pilots-flying-high/
“My own personal opinion was it was not illegal,” he says. “I never stopped. I just ignored it.”
Link: Massachusetts court says ‘upskirt’ photos are legal – CNN.com
The high court ruled that the practice did not violate the law because the women who were photographed while riding Boston public transportation were not nude or partially nude.
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to complaints from photographers and their employers about being shut out of some of President Obama’s official meetings, the question is, What can the media do about it? On Friday, the White House clos
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/white-house-shuts-out-photographers-again-so-now-what.html
Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to complaints from photographers and their employers about being shut out of some of President Obama’s official meetings, the question is, What can the media do about it?
Despite repeated and sometimes heated objections, despite meetings where the White House Press Secretary promised to make positive changes, and despite pressure from a media coalition who again and again have objected to the lack of access independent jou
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/white-house-does-it-again-photographers-shut-out-dalai-lama-meeting
“I think the White House grand strategy is to talk us to death and do nothing,” White House News Photographers Association president Ron Sachs said this afternoon.
Link: Judge restricts use of color photography in Holmes case – Blacksburg – Mobile
So Williams struck a compromise, ruling that the photographer could photograph Holmes from the waist up and that the newspaper could publish a picture in black and white.
A news photographer has sued the Hartford, Connecticut police department and two of its officers for forcing him to stop flying a camera-equipped drone over the scene of a police investigation. Photographer Pedro Rivera, who works for television station W
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/hartford-police-sued-for-stopping-camera-drone-chasing-photog-away.html
Pedro Rivera says police violated his First Amendment rights to “monitor” the police response to a motor vehicle accident, and his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizure.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, news photographers have been subject to police intimidation and arrest, as if photography is a crime. But federal law protects photography and photographers, as Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press P