Category: Access & Censorship
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Tribune photographer loses decision in appeals court
Link: The long-debated argument over First Amendment rights and media access were at the center of a federal appeals court decision this week, which ruled police had the right to handcuff an Oakland Tribune newspaper photographer and bar him from taking pictures of a freeway crash scene.
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Photographer, journalists deported from Yemen
Link: Yemeni authorities are cracking down on journalists and photographers as Marco Di Lauro, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, tells BJP he was detained and deported from the Middle-Eastern country
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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Three More Missing Journalists Released By Libya
Three missing journalists have been released by the Libyan government in Tripoli and they’re exp
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My Lai massacre photographer admits he destroyed pictures
Link: This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.
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Three more journalists missing in Libya, four held by Libyan government; four NYT reporters have been freed
Link: AFP journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt and Getty images photographer Joe Raedle have not been heard from since Saturday morning.
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Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb
Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb Smartphones could offer journalists and the public an easy and cost-effective method to provide online updates of court proceedings — which is why it’s always been frustrating that many federal jurisdictions don’t allow the devices into courthouses. Now, thanks to a newly issued document, we know…
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Associated Press photographer found "unharmed" in Libya
Link: Altaf Qadri, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who had gone missing in Libya on Saturday, has been found “unharmed”
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Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded
Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded Aside from the long list of tactical information we can’t report or photograph, the soldiers and commanding officers censor themselves. They are afraid of the repercussions of saying the wrong thing, and are on the lookout for journalists with an agenda. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/embedistan-unembedded-vs-embedded/ I have spent six months…
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Two American journalists held in Libya for two weeks without word
Link: James Foley, a correspondent for GlobalPost, and Clare Morgana Gillis, a journalist working for The Atlantic and USA Today
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Obama on bin Laden photo decision: ‘We don’t need to spike the football’
Link: It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head– are not floating around– as– an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies
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AP, Reuters to sit out South Carolina GOP debate
Link: Debate sponsors Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party will only allow photos to be taken in the moments ahead of the debate tonight and not during the event itself
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Collection of thoughts in Osama bin Laden death photo debate
Link: Martijn Kleppe has compiled a good and broad-ranging list of writing and reactions about the images surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Family asks for access to missing photographer
Link: The fate of UK-based photojournalist Anton Hammerl remains unknown, 37 days after he went missing in Libya
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
I have argued this again and again, and have been reviled and criticized for it again and again. And
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At Gunpoint, Miami Beach Police Threaten Videographer At Fatal Shooting
Link: Benoit, who was with his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, said police pulled him out of the car, put him face down on the pavement, guns pointed at the couples’ heads, handcuffed him, and smashed his cell phone. Then they put the smashed phone in his back pocket as he lay on the ground. But Benoit…
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Showing a ‘distressing’ image could make you a criminal in Tennessee
Link: Another week, another law restricting photography
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Having Captured Killing On Tape, Cameraman Fears For His Life
Having captured killing on tape, cameraman fears for his life – Committee to Protect Journalists Abdul Salam Somroo is in danger. He is the Awaz TV cameraman who took the June 9 video footage of the pointblank murder of a young man, Sarfaraz Shah, in southern Karachi. That’s the same part of the city where…
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Police Continue Illegal Seizure Of Cell Phone Cameras
Police across America continue to confiscate citizens’ cell phone cameras despite lawyers saying
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Photojournalists appeal for Iranian photographer's release
Link: A group of Iranian press photographers have called for the release of Maryam Majd, a sports photographer who was arrested in Iran ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament