It’s not just NYC. As FPF's Kirstin McCudden told CJR, police departments from LA to Chicago and on college campuses across the country have arrested, kettled and otherwise harassed journalists covering protests in recent months. It needs to stop.
Columbia Journalism Review
For journalists, NYPD protest changes can’t come too soon
On May 30, 2020, as demonstrations erupted in New York City in response to the murder of George Floyd, photojournalist Adam Gray was working the st...
Good profile of our friends at the NPPA and some of the great work they're doing.
Editor and Publisher
Standing strong for visual journalists; The NPPA’s ongoing advocacy for access and innovation - Editor and Publisher
Since its inception, the National Press Photographers Association has worked with photographers across traditional film-based and digital photograp...
Police across California have threatened journalists with arrests for covering evictions of homeless encampments. It’s unclear why — journalists aren’t interfering with the evictions. But they are documenting them, and clearly officers don’t want that.
Freedom of the Press
California officials must let journalists cover encampment sweeps
Threats to arrest journalists are the latest in a long line of egregious press freedom violations in the Golden State
After shutting down Al Jazeera's Israeli newsroom in May, Israel is now revoking press credentials of AJ journalists Shameful. The U.S. should insist the press have full access to cover wars that it bankrolls. https://www.barrons.com/news/israel-says-revoking-press-credentials-of-al-jazeera-journalists-d2f7f437
“The government says ‘national security’ is threatened by [TikTok]. A bigger threat, however, is the incessant use of that phrase to impart spurious urgency to agendas that are only tangentially, if at all, related to the nation’s safety.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/11/bytedance-tiktok-ban-legal-appeal/
The Biden administration should commemorate 9/11 anniversary by ordering declassification of the Senate’s report on the CIA’s torture program. By Lauren Harper
Freedom of the Press
Biden should declassify Senate report on CIA torture program
Release would help counter growing evidence that the agency has become too powerful for oversight
You’d think media moguls would understand that we don’t have secret courts in this country – even for rich people. And you’d certainly think a sitting judge would get it. Apparently not. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/media/rupert-murdoch-lachlan-succession-court-news-outlets/index.html
NY's governor ignored objections from transparency orgs, including @Freedom of the Press and signed into law a bill to further delay release of public records. Officials sign up for scrutiny. Transparency shouldn't be postponed to save them from embarrassment.
Freedom of the Press
NY law will needlessly delay release of public records
Requirement to notify government employees when their disciplinary records are requested is about secrecy, not privacy
Powerful account of the costs of SLAPP suits, from legal fees to insurance spikes to lost time to reputational harm. Charles Ornstein even lost out on a mortgage. All states and the fed gov should pass anti-SLAPP laws. Those that have should strengthen them.
ProPublica
Our Editor Won a 6-Year Legal Battle. It Didn’t Feel Like a Victory.
After publishing a story on a doctor accused of violating federal research rules and skirting ethical guidelines, ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein w...
Some good news to conclude this tragic story. Killers and assailants of journalists, along with other press freedom violators, need to be held accountable.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Robert Telles found guilty in murder of RJ reporter Jeff German
Robert Telles, the former elected Clark County Public Administrator, was found guilty of murdering Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter ...