Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030101470.html?wprss=rss_world
The daily newspaper Etemaad, or Trust, and the weekly magazine IranDokht were banned until further notice by the Press Supervisory Board, a media watchdog council led by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The board closed Etemaad for going beyond “the limits of the press,”
Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical apps that mocked public figu
via TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/apple-iphone-pornography-ban/
Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical apps that mocked public figures. It was ridiculous. So you might think I’d be happy that Apple is now rejecting and removing sexy apps from the App Store as well. But actually, the hypocrisy is much worse now.
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past week’s controversy swirling around Apple’s ret
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper.
Hoping for a family-oriented future for its iPad, Apple is looking more closely at what is for sale in its App Store.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/technology/23apps.html?src=twr&pagewanted=all
When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. “The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,” he said.
Bob Patefield, an English amateur photographer, video-recorded an outrageous Terrorism Act stop-and-search in Accrington town centre last December, where he was stopped by a police community suppor…
Bob Patefield, an English amateur photographer, video-recorded an outrageous Terrorism Act stop-and-search in Accrington town centre last December, where he was stopped by a police community support officer (a kind of junior copper) who told him he was under suspicion of terrorism for taking pictures of the Christmas celebration — Santa Claus, a pipe band, and so on.
Tiger Woods’s public apologia was the latest installment in his love/hate relationship with the media. But even then he managed to enforce Tiger Rules.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“Doing a story on him was not an enjoyable journalistic experience, to say the least,” Mr. Tannenbaum said by phone. “The thing that it most reminded me of was the few times when I have had an assignment in Eastern European countries, and it was almost as if an attaché from Moscow had been assigned to me.”
Last Friday, even though there was seemingly much to discuss, Mr. Woods took no questions. Mr. Diaz and the rest of the news media that attended were parked a mile away in a Marriott hotel, watching a video feed.
In the same proposition there is also an anti paparazzi part. A rule “that in effect will prohibit photography in public places where anyone who’s in the photograph might be unhappy about being photographed.”. This law, of course, applies only to pro photographers, otherwise tourists would be prevented to take pictures, and that, my friends would not be good.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Of Orphans and unhappy faces
News Agencies Boycott Distributing Hand-Out Photo
Link: Photographers, Reporters, Kept Away From Obama Meeting Dalai Lama
As journalism budgets continue to wither, some companies are taking aggressive action, but other smaller publications have had to let go of those efforts.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/business/media/15hearst.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Indeed, as many companies have cut newsroom budgets they are also scaling back on another of their civic duties: legal battles to gain access to government information.
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an exchange between a videographer and a security guard in front of Vancouver Olympic Centre where the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held.
The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a ye…
via U.S.: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6191PF20100210
The U.S. military has never said exactly why it detained Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed — who worked for Reuters as a freelance TV cameraman and photographer — and locked him away for so long, saying the evidence against him was classified.
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But has the legal settlement made a difference in how photographers are treated within the nation’s largest subway system?
Not even close.
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In what is looking to be more like a military occupation than a humanitarian relief effort, a group of United States Marines confiscated the camera of a journalist who was photographing a demonstration outside the American embassy in Port-au-Prince this week.
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Rob Hurlbut was standing on the platform of the San Diego Trolley when he saw a group of armed security guards tackle a man for smoking a cigarette.
He began shooting video with his digital SLR, prompting a female guard to tell him he was not allowed to take photos.
Hurlbut continued shooting as three guards struggled to handcuff the man with one of them driving his knee into the man’s face.
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I started this blog to document my trial, but as it languished, I began documenting First Amendment violations against other photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regular basis.
From healthcare to public debt, pundits are attacking President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address from almost every conceivable angle. When it comes to Obama transparency, Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy attorney Kurt Opsahl points ou
When it comes to Obama transparency, Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy attorney Kurt Opsahl points out that the chief executive told the American public one thing Wednesday night and a federal appeals court another just a few weeks ago.
Photo by Umida Akhmedova Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to…
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Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk that contains approximately 100 of her photographs of life and customs in Uzbekistan.
The ‘mass photo gathering’, which starting at noon, was organised by ‘I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist’, a group set up by professional photographers last year, in support of campaigns run by other photographic bodies including Amateur Photographer (AP) magazine and the British Journal of Photography.
“It’s quite obvious that professional photographers across the country are being searched because they are photographers not because they are suspicious.
“It’s a common law right to take pictures in public places and we are here to show that.”
Link: BBC News – Photographers protest over UK terror search laws
More than 2,000 photographers demonstrate against police using terrorism laws to prevent photography in public places
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/photographers-protest-stop-search-terrorism-police
More than 2,000 photographers demonstrate against police using terrorism laws to prevent photography in public places