Category: Access & Censorship

  • Art Garfunkel doesn’t allow photos, so website shows readers where he performed

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    Link: » Art Garfunkel doesn’t allow photos, so website shows readers where he performed JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • Plandome Heights pols object to photos

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    Link: Plandome Heights pols object to photos – The Island Now: News Plandome Heights Mayor Kenneth Riscica raises his middle finger during a board of trustees meeting on Monday night.

  • Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case

    Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case

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    Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case The Internet company said it would appeal a French court’s ruling that it strip from its search results nine images of the former European racing chief Max Mosley. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/business/international/google-is-ordered-to-block-images-in-privacy-case.html?partner=rss&emc=rss A French court ruled Wednesday that Google must remove from its Internet search results all images…

  • AP editors: Obama relies on staged propaganda photos

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    AP editors: Obama relies on staged propaganda photos Editors of the Associated Press condemned the White House’s refusal to give photojournalists real access to President Obama, who prefers to circulate press release-style pictures taken by his own paid photographers. Link: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/ap-editors-obama-relies-on-staged-propaganda-photos/ The AP has only been permitted to photograph the president in the Oval Office…

  • Photography & The Law: Access, Copyright and Social Media Issues

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    PPE 2013: Photography & The Law: Access, Copyright and Social Media Issues | PDNPulse During a talk at PhotoPlus Expo 2013, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), attorneys Mickey Osterreicher and Alicia Wagner Calzada provided tips for how photographers can protect their First Amendment rights and control the co via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/10/ppe-2013-photography-the-law-access-copyright-and-social-media-issues.html During…

  • A guy from the New York Times attends Girl Hunter Weekend and isn’t happy to see another reporter there

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    Link: » A guy from the New York Times attends Girl Hunter Weekend and isn’t happy to see another reporter there JIMROMENESKO.COM “Well, this isn’t good,” [Gordinier] says when meeting me. “What’s not good?” I ask. “I’m not trying to be gruff,” he says condescendingly, “but I thought we had an exclusive.”

  • French government confirms abducted journalists are still alive

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    French government confirms abducted journalists are still alive On 07 June, Edouard Elias, a 23-year-old French photographer, and journalist Didier François disappeared in Syria while on assignment for the French radio station Europe 1. Both men were were travelling to Aleppo in Syria when they were abducted by four a via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2298969/french-government-confirms-abducted-journalists-are-still-alive…

  • In Obama’s war on leaks, reporters fight back

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    In Obama’s war on leaks, reporters fight back Obama’s war on leaks has journalists and their sources on edge. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-war-on-leaks-reporters-fight-back/2013/10/04/70231e1c-2aeb-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html Every disclosure to the press of classified information now triggers a leak investigation, said Washington Post national news editor Cameron Barr. “Investigations can be done electronically. They don’t need to compel journalists…

  • Russia jails freelance photog; Russian media blackout photos in protest

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    Link: Russia jails freelance photog; Russian media blackout photos in protest | dvafoto Among those arrested was freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov, a Redux contributing photographer, who now faces months in prison

  • American government keeps files on “suspicious” photographers

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    Link: American government keeps files on “suspicious” photographers | dvafoto Many of the incidents and investigations contained in these “Suspicious Activity Reports” end, as above, with a line similar to “No further police action/investigation was taken.” However, the reports show that individuals are being targeted for being unfriendly, taking pictures for an art class, or…

  • Police Intimidation Watch: New Haven Police Sued for Arresting Photographer, Erasing iPhone Video

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    Police Intimidation Watch: New Haven Police Sued for Arresting Photographer, Erasing iPhone Video | PDNPulse A New Haven man jailed for recording New Haven, Connecticut police arresting three people filed a $500,000 lawsuit suit yesterday against the city and several individual officers for violation of his civil rights. Luis Luna, a medical interpreter, was jai…

  • The Falling Man – 9/11 Suicide Photograph

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    The Falling Man Do you remember thisphotograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from therecord of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search forthe man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of thatd via Esquire: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN?src=soc_fcbks Do you remember this photograph?…

  • Hollande ‘village idiot’ photo sparks censorship row after image is withdrawn

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    Hollande ‘village idiot’ photo sparks censorship row after image is withdrawn President Hollande found himself at the centre of an embarrassing debate yesterday after Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French press agency, withdrew a photograph that left him looking like a… Link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3860487.ece President Hollande found himself at the centre of an embarrassing debate yesterday after…

  • More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria

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    More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria Journalists who are justifiably worried about being kidnapped by the rebels or the regime are being forced to reconsider the way they cover the ongoing civil war, even as they feel a duty to continue reporting on it. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/its-getting-much-harder-to-report-on-the-war-in-syria So what does this mean…

  • Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance

    Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance

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    Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance A standoff is looming between technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google and government … even though much of the focus until now has portrayed the two as being in the same camp. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/stop-clumping-tech-companies-in-with-government-in-the-surveillance-scandals-they-may-be-at-war/ Everyone assumes that technology companies like Apple, Facebook,…

  • Cop Who Arrested Times Photog Faces Seven Years

    Cop Who Arrested Times Photog Faces Seven Years

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    Cop Who Arrested Times Photographer Faces Seven Years in Prison For allegedly lying about the facts. via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/cop-who-arrested-times-photog-faces-seven-years.html New York-based British photographer Giles Clarke uncovers the inhumane conditions of El Salvador’s gang prisons in a series he calls Caged In El Salvador

  • An Unlucky Photographer Catches a Break

    An Unlucky Photographer Catches a Break

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    An Unlucky Photographer Catches a Break – PhotoShelter Blog Freelance photojournalist Robert Stolarik has been covering New York City for The New York Times for over a decade and in the span of a year, he has been harassed by the NYPD multiple times. In 2011, Stolarik was pushed down the stairs of the Winter Garde via…

  • War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist

    War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist

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    War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist The recent security and military leaks have received predictable criticism from the government, but a number of journalists have also lashed out at those who are closest to the stories. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/business/media/war-on-leaks-is-pitting-journalist-vs-journalist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss It’s not surprising that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who brokered the publishing of…

  • Opinion: NSA’s surveillance programs are the “most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.”

    Opinion: NSA’s surveillance programs are the “most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.”

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    Opinion: NSA’s surveillance programs are the “most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.” The NSA’s state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers he… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/22/opinion-nsas-surveillance-p.html Our human rights to speak and to communicate,…

  • American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels

    American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels

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    American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels Matthew Schrier, a photographer, says he was held for seven months by jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. After being robbed, tortured and accused of being an American spy, he escaped in July. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/world/middleeast/american-tells-of-odyssey-as-prisoner-of-syrian-rebels.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1&pagewanted=all For seven months, Matthew Schrier, 35, was a prisoner in…