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Nick Waters / bellingcat:
A collection of at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by US law enforcement during the protests on May 29 and May 30 — Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killing of George Floyd.
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Michael Anthony Adams / @michaeladams317: Police just raided the gas station we were sheltering at. After shouting press multiple times and raising my press card in the air, I was thrown to the ground. Then another cop came up and peppered sprayed me in the face while I was being held down. https://twitter.com/...
John Cusack / @johncusack: Cops didn't like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike. Ahhm herea the audio https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: So here's what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.
Matthew Dessem / Slate: Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez / @aguzmanlopez: I just got hit by a rubber bullet near the bottom of my throat. I had just interviewed a man with my phone at 3rd and Pine and a police officer aimed and shot me in the throat, I saw the bullet bounce onto the street @LAist @kpcc OK, that's one way to stop me, for a while https://twitter.com/...
Fontaine Carpenter / @_nullifidius: Journalists targeted/attacked by police: @ryanraiche & journalists he was with peppersprayed @MichaelAdams317 held down/peppersprayed @RyanFaircloth car window shot out/injured @mollyhf teargassed/shot w rubber bullets @jcreindl peppersprayed @letsgomathias violently arrested
Katelyn Burns / Vox: Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: That's the PG version of my leg courtesy of @MnDPS_MSP still going to report tonight and tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post: Police turn more aggressive against protesters and bystanders alike, adding to disorder
Tom Jones / Poynter: Attacks on media covering the protests are simply following the president's rhetoric
Andrew Heslop / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA: CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering US protests over police violence
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: One of our @latimes colleagues, attacked by police in Minneapolis after identifying herself as a journalist. One of many journalists injured, accosted or arrested in the U.S. tonight while trying to do their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Detroit Free Press: Our journalists are being attacked while doing their jobs. This is unacceptable.
Torey Van Oot / Star Tribune: Media members injured, one arrested while covering unrest in Minnesota
Nathan Robinson / The Guardian: Across America, police are responding to peaceful protests with violence
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: I've never seen so many incidents with police and reporters simultaneously in different cities. Tension between cops and reporters is nothing new. Aggression on reporters in multiple locations nationally at same time is something different. https://twitter.com/...
Thom Dunn / Boing Boing: Minneapolis police have allegedly blinded a photojournalist permanently in one eye
Paige Lavender / HuffPost Australia: HuffPost Reporter Chris Mathias Arrested While Peacefully Covering NYC Anti-Racism Protest
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: NYPD Union Doxes Mayor's Daughter on Twitter
Jane C. Hu / @jane_c_hu: a thread of instances where journalists have reported being shot at, injured, arrested, or harassed by police while documenting US protests:
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News: White House downplays Minnesota claims of far-right role in riots, in dispute over who's fueling violence
@chillmage: One-off videos of police violence usually lead to endless debate over details with people finding context to justify the abuse. A lot of what we are seeing right now is simply naked violence. You can't invent context for it that makes any sense https://twitter.com/...
David Fahrenthold / @fahrenthold: NEW: Police turned more aggressive against protestors last night — and bystanders, and journalists — with more violent tactics that were meant to restore order. Often, they did the opposite, adding grievance on grievance and chaos on chaos. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: “Police all over the country teargassed protestors, drove vehicles through crowds, opened fire with non-lethal rounds on journalists or people on their own property, & in at least one instance, pushed over an elderly man who was walking away with a cane.” https://slate.com/...
Celia Sue / LAUGHTER AND TEARS: Free Press Literally Under Fire
F L O R / @flor: listen. understand. and help if you can. sign the petition to fully prosecute the murderers of george floyd: https://www.change.org/... donate: https://secure.actblue.com/... do not stay silent #blacklivesmatter https://twitter.com/...
ZeRo / @zerowondering: This is one of the worst things I've seen. A man who was doing his job to report the news is arrested for absolutely no reason despite being peaceful and compliant. Police enforcement is supposed to be there for the people, not terrorize them. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Malone / @malonebarry: The ground has been firmly laid over the last few years for US security forces to attack journalists. Calling us enemies of the people will be heard by many who will understand it as a green light. As made all too clear in almost 30 examples here. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Schiff / @richard_schiff: Remember the 1st Amendment? bellingcat - US Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/...
Yasmin Yusuf / @yasminyusuf200: “This selection of incidents demonstrates that law enforcement across multiple cities, but especially in Minneapolis, are knowingly and deliberately targeting journalists with less lethal munitions, arrests and other forms of violence.” https://twitter.com/...
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: When the president encourages police violence and also calls the press the “enemy of the people,” this is what happens. https://twitter.com/...
Empress Rocka / @therealbamfhbic: Attacking the Free Press is a sure sign you know what you're doing isn't right. And that means anything from calling it fake news to pepper-spraying reporters to shooting them with rubber bullets. This travesty lies at the feet of @POTUS & The @WhiteHouse https://twitter.com/...
Michael Learmonth / @learmonth: Another view of a @vicenews reporter getting shoved to the ground and pepper sprayed in the face. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrod Brown / @sensherrodbrown: Journalists should not be targeted by the police, period. They are the beating heart of our democracy's free press. Make no mistake - this disrespect towards journalists starts at the top, with a President who has demonized them for years as the “enemy of the people”. https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: Since we wrote about the 29 incidents in this article, published 2 hours ago, a further 21 incidents have been identified by @N_Waters89 https://twitter.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Another black man arrested while reporting. This is unacceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mack / @astrokatie: “The violence appears so widespread and consistent that you could be mistaken for thinking it's coordinated at a national level. To some extent, it is: President Trump has cheered on police violence like a fan at a sports event” https://www.theverge.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: Bellingcat's @N_Waters89 has been collecting examples of the US police targeting journalists, both domestic and foreign, during the recent protests against the killing of George Floyd. So far, 29 incidents have been identified in the land of the free. https://www.bellingcat.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: He's moved from instructing supporters to “pre-reject” the news accounts journalist produce... to encouraging police to treat news crews as makers and spreaders of anarchy. Don't @ me with “nothing new,” please. I'm tired of it.
Blair Miller / @blairmillertv: Thank you, Senator. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Deliberate, targeted attacks by law enforcement across the US in an atmosphere of licensed hate for the press, hand-in-hand with the licensed racism https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Levitt / @levitt_matt: Read this. It will make you feel uncomfortable. Read it anyway https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: Investigators with Bellingcat have “identified at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by law enforcement” during protests over the killing of George Floyd. https://www.bellingcat.com/...
Jonathan Landay / @jonathanlanday: “Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killing of George Floyd.” https://twitter.com/...
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
A Fox News crew was harassed and chased out of Lafayette Park by protesters while covering the protests outside the White House — An angry mob of rioters stoked by the death of a black man at the apparent hand of a Minneapolis cop turned its rage on a Fox News crew early Saturday …
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@nytimes: Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye. Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone. Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her. https://www.nytimes.com/...
MN State Patrol / @mndps_msp: In the course of clearing the streets and restoring order at Lake Street and Snelling Avenue, four people were arrested by State Patrol troopers, including three members of a CNN crew. The three were released once they were confirmed to be members of the media.
Colby Hall / @colbyhall: Fox News internal memo from Suzanne Scott condemning attacks on their reporters and crew last night: https://twitter.com/...
@cnni: A CNN crew was arrested while giving a live television report in Minneapolis, where the crew was covering ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd. They had clearly identified themselves as press. https://edition.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: “America got to see what an actual offense against the First Amendment looks like,” our TV critic @poniewozik writes after Omar Jimenez, a CNN reporter, and his crew, were arrested in Minneapolis. “It looked like world news footage from a police state.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jamesfoleyfund: Journalists must be free to do their jobs without fear of physical attack in the country of the First Amendment. #ProtectJournalists #PressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Nick Valencia / @cnnvalencia: I wore a white t-shirt yesterday. I went to give my daughter a bath and my wife said I had something on my back. It's blood from the wound that was still bleeding. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Harry Cheadle / @hcheadle: gotta add a little bit to this: additional footage shows people throwing stuff at the Fox crew and trying to grab their camera. That's much worse than merely shouting. Still feel that “assault on the press” rhetoric is a bit much though https://www.foxnews.com/...
Dr. Seema Yasmin / @doctoryasmin: Will teach this tweet in journalism class. Look at which sentences are active and which are passive. https://twitter.com/...
Michiko Kakutani / @michikokakutani: A Reporter's Cry on Live TV: 'I'm Getting Shot! I'm Getting Shot!' From a television crew assaulted by protesters to a photographer struck in the eye, journalists have found themselves targeted on the streets of America. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Deplorable behavior by some of the protesters in DC's Lafayette Park overnight: A Fox News crew was harassed, punched, and chased out of the park. Journalists must be able to report without fear. Meet speech with more speech, not fists and broken cameras. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Martha MacCallum / @marthamaccallum: Grateful they are all okay. Good people and true pros. Fox News crew chased, attacked by angry mob while reporting on protests outside White House | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/...
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: Whether it's police officers or everyday Americans — keep your hands, weapons and handcuffs off of *any* journalist exercising their First Amendment right to report the news. Period. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Akela Lacy / @akela_lacy: Sorry but this is a disgusting comparison and people really shouldn't be elevating it https://twitter.com/...
Ron Fournier / @ron_fournier: If the First Amendment doesn't apply to FOX News, it doesn't belong to you. Knock off the violence because: 1. It's wrong and repugnant 2. It's what Trump needs to get re-elected. https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Bream / @shannonbream: I couldn't be more thankful my colleagues are safe. These guys are tough, but they are also my friends. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Kaili Joy Gray / @kailijoy: Trump calls the press the enemy of the people. Guess Fox isn't exempt. https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Llenas / @bryanllenas: This is outrageous, dangerous and should be condemned by all. No member of the press should be targeted and violently attack by a mob for doing their jobs. Grateful colleagues @LelandVittert and crew are ok. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Kaitlan Collins / @kaitlancollins: “Vittert and the crew were punched and hit with projectiles as they fled, and a Fox News camera was broken when a member of the mob tried to grab it.” https://www.foxnews.com/...
Jeremy Diamond / @jdiamond1: Reporters need to be allowed to do their jobs. This is unacceptable. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Nischelle Turner / @nischelleturner: It's inexcusable and Fox should keep this same energy when reporting on incidents that happen to journalists at other networks which they did NOT yesterday. https://twitter.com/...
Guy Benson / @guypbenson: Last night, my @FoxNews colleague & fellow @NorthwesternU @MedillSchool alum @LelandVittert was physically assaulted and robbed by ‘protesters’ during live coverage in the field, along with his crew. This is an unacceptable & outrageous attack on the free press.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “This was the scariest situation I've been in since I got chased out of Tahrir Square by a mob, and this was equally scary,” Fox correspondent @LelandVittert said. Read the full account here >> https://www.foxnews.com/...
Chris Enloe / TheBlaze: Harrowing video shows moment protesters attack Fox News reporter — police allegedly refused to help
Les Steed / The Sun: CREW ATTACKED ‘Fox News crew’ covering George Floyd protests ATTACKED as masked rioters steal …
Washington Post:
As reporters across the US are attacked, in some cases with rubber bullets, or arrested by cops while covering protests, an overview of over a dozen examples — Ali Velshi knew almost instantly what had happened when he felt a sharp pain in his leg Saturday night in Minneapolis: He'd been hit with a rubber bullet fired by police.
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: Trump has sown hatred of the press for years. Now journalists are under assault from police and protesters alike.
Tyler Blint- Welsh / @tylergabriel_: Lost my glasses and my ankle is in searing pain after NYPD hit me in the face multiple times with riot shields and pushed me to the ground. I was backing away as request, with my hands up. My NYPD-issued press badge was clearly visible. I'm just sitting here crying. This sucks.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times: Times reporter recounts being hit with tear gas and rubber bullets by Minnesota police
Phoebe Leila Barghouty / @plbarghouty: NYPD violently arresting protestors, journalists. They rushed @DGisSERIOUS and i with riot shields even though we were complying and credentialed. I think this might be @letsgomathias ? Would love if someone can confirm. https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Dozens of journalists attacked and arrested at US George Floyd protests
Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump: Much more “disinformation” coming out of CNN, MSDNC, @nytimes and @washingtonpost, by far, than coming out of any foreign country, even combined. Fake News is the Enemy of the People!
James Fallows / The Atlantic: Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Ted Johnson / @tedstew: US Press Freedom Tracker says that they have so far documented at least 100 different “incidents of aggression” against the media over the weekend, but more from today have yet to be counted. There have been more than 60 assaults of journalists, per the group.
Kristen Hare / Poynter: In nearly every state, front pages capture outrage after George Floyd's death
Sara Fischer / Axios: Journalists get caught in the crosshairs as protests unfold
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Journalists Become Targets While Covering America's Unraveling
Eric Boehm / Reason: Nation's Cops Seem Determined To Demonstrate Why People Are Protesting Them in the First Place
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: Here's the story of how @Carolyn_Cole and I were fired on by @MnDPS_MSP #Minneapolis Times reporter recounts being hit with tear gas and rubber bullets by Minnesota police https://www.latimes.com/...
@latimes: “I've covered protests involving police,” writes @mollyhf from Minneapolis. “I've also covered the U.S. military in war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan. I have never been fired at by police until tonight.” https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: There's too muc violence to even absorb. It's soul crushing. But re law enforcement attacks on and arrests of journalists, I keep thinking of what Gov Walz said when apologizing for the unjust and frankly idiotic arrest of @OmarJimenez and his crew... 1/3 https://twitter.com/...
Hollywood Reporter: Journalists Detail Being Hit By Rubber Bullets, Attacked While Covering Nationwide Protests
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: From Minneapolis to broken streets of Philly, the ‘human capital stock’ has finally had enough
Brian Stelter / CNN: Journalists covering protests face assault and arrest
@wcco: BREAKING: A veteran WCCO photographer is under arrest, taken into custody by the State Patrol. Award-winning photographer Tom Aviles was struck by a rubber bullet. | https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Julio-César Chávez / @juliocesrchavez: Tonight I was shot in the arm and the back of my neck with rubber bullets in the middle of covering the Minneapolis protests. My security advisor was shot in the face; his gas mask protected him. Here's what happened: https://reuters.com/... Here's what it looks like: https://twitter.com/...
Amber Jamieson / @ambiej: HuffPost report Christopher Mathias — who regularly covers protests, was covering Brooklyn protests last night, has been tweeting from the protests all day — has just been arrested by NYPD in Brooklyn. I've asked DCPI for more information. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: Well congrats NYPD, you just arrested the nicest man on the planet with his press pass clearly hanging from his neck. Let him go. https://twitter.com/...
Star Tribune: Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin charged with murder, manslaughter in George Floyd death
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: I'm home & overwhelmed by all your messages of love & support. Thank you. I'll explain more about my arrest later but for now just know it was bogus, as were the arrests of all the brave New Yorkers protesting against a police force that routinely terrorizes this city.
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: NYC Sunday night, @WSJ reporter https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Zoe Tidman / The Independent: George Floyd protests: Woman who ‘lost eye’ tells people to keep demonstrating
Nick Valencia / @cnnvalencia: My cameraman and I were shot by protestors at CNN Center Friday with what we believe were BB gun pellets. I took it in the back and stomach. He got it in the pelvis. https://twitter.com/...
@twittermoments: More journalists reporting on protests are being arrested by police in NYC and Minneapolis, following the arrest of CNN's @OmarJimenez on Friday. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: A dozen reporters targeted by cops, teargassed at point-blank range after identifying themselves as journalists, Minneapolis. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: Lawless behavior by the police, targeting working journalists who are there to serve as the eyes and the ears of the public. https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to New York, what seemed like isolated attacks on the press at political rallies and protests over the last few years has intensified, according to some media experts https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: Hours after journalists are arrested and assaulted covering protests across the country https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lamothe / @danlamothe: I've worked alongside Molly covering stories for different publications. She's a pro, and not prone to exaggeration. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Chris Mathias is one of the best extremism reporters in the world. This is definitely him. Huffpost is working to get him released. https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Ruhle / @sruhle: Please watch this. Thank you for your reporting @mollyhf https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Many of these incidents, because they target the press, were captured live on camera. The footage could help to verify unnecessary police action against journalists. https://www.axios.com/...
@cmclymer: Here's a journalist with @latimes giving her account of Minneapolis State Police firing on a group of reporters at point-blank range and refusing to answer questions about where to go: https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: Over a three-day period, organizations that track press violence documented about two dozen acts of violence https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley / @lottelydia: Thank you for producing this handout that I can give to my students to explain the politics of the passive vs. active voice. https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested on live television while covering a protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Friday evening https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kamala Harris / @senkamalaharris: A free and independent press is a bedrock of our democracy. It's part of what sets us apart from dictatorships. Attacking press who are on the ground during these protests is horrifying and undermines our democracy. This must stop immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Press Foundation Documents At Least 100 Different “Incidents Of Aggressions” Against Media During Weekend Of Protests
Ginger Gibson / @gingergibson: This is abhorrent. I've worked a protest with Rod before and there is no one I can think of who is safer and cautious in the face of upheaval. There is zero chance they were confused for anything other than working journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Macfadyen / @macfadyenangus: western journalists sold their soul in 2003 when they embedded with US forces and reported back the lies they were fed on WMD in Iraq. Now militarized forces on the ground in their own country are coming for them and they are shocked, shocked. Chickens, meet your roost. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Mcleary / @paulmcleary: After 4 years of “the press is the enemy of the people,” police officers across the country are actively targeting reporters. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: MSNBC host Ali Velshi tweeted Saturday he'd been hit by rubber bullets “but I am fine,” he posted. “State police supported by National Guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally.” https://thr.cm/5XBQpdZ
Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller: Huffington Post Reporter Arrested While Covering George Floyd Protests In New York City
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: Read @peterbakernyt: “With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Trump's first instinct has been to look for someone to fight.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured in Minneapolis when police moved into an area occupied by about 500 protesters. More here: https://www.reuters.com/... 📷@JulioCesrChavez https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: “Although doctors told her that she is not likely to recover her vision, she is grateful for one thing: she shoots with her right eye.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: Journalists under siege
Joan Walsh / The Nation: Trump's Authoritarian Porn Has a Lot of Fans
Chris Gardner / @chrissgardner: So many journalists — and innocent protestors — hit today by rubber bullets, gas, otherwise pummeled in the act of covering an unprecedented moment in history. All of this after @OmarJimenez arrested on live TV. https://hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: Just wow. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Press badges are a target now https://twitter.com/...
NowThis / @nowthisnews: A man wearing a helmet labeled ‘PRESS’ reacts to getting hit by an apparent police projectile in Minneapolis. Numerous members of the press have been been assaulted or arrested by law enforcement while covering protests nationally https://twitter.com/...
Nick Brown / @nickpbrown: My colleagues are now among the growing list of journalists who've been shot at by police. I'm seething with rage, and also feeling as hopeless as I've ever felt in my life. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: State Patrol in Minneapolis shot another photojournalist with a rubber bullet, forced him to the ground and arrested him. The video makes clear he identified himself as press, but obscenity shouting officers ignored that. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@wjz: Our sister station WCCO reports on of its award-winning veteran photographer Tom Aviles has been struck by a rubber bullet and taken into custody by the State Patrol Saturday night. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ...
Laurie David / @laurie_david: “By denigrating journalists so often, he has degraded respect for what journalists do and the crucial role they play in a democracy,” Trump has sown hatred of the press for years. Now journalists are under assault from police and protesters alike. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@wcco: WCCO photographer Tom Aviles, who was hit with a rubber bullet and arrested earlier this evening, is now out of custody. | https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Max Berger / @maxberger: More evidence of police targeting and shooting at journalists. These are authoritarian tactics: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Stahl / @b_stahl: Someone told the state patrol that media are exempt from the curfew right? https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: Journalists at several protests were injured, arrested by police while trying to cover the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Monte Poole / @montepoolenbcs: He consistently says ‘the media is the enemy of the people.’ Some are dense enough to believe every lying word. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Conover / @adamconover: American police are deliberately attacking journalists. “Militarized police” isn't an adequate descriptor anymore; we've turned them into a paramilitary army that violates the Geneva Conventions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ashley Southall / @ashleyattimes: There are so few Black men in New York City's press corp and they are the kind of journalists who have an indispensable perspective that we need in this moment because of their experiences in that identity. And that makes what police did to Tyler so much more outrageous. https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
CNN's Atlanta HQ was vandalized and the CNN logo at the entrance was defaced during Friday's protests, which began peacefully, against the death of George Floyd — The CNN Center in Atlanta was vandalized on Friday during ongoing protests over the deaths of George Floyd and numerous other black men and women at the hands of police.
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Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ condemns targeting of journalists covering protests across the U.S.
KTLA: 2 Atlanta officers fired after video shows them tasing man, using ‘excessive force’ on woman, mayor says
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: Wow. Police in Minneapolis just arrested @OmarJimenez live on CNN. What is going on?? Our camera crew and Omar's producer also now being arrested.
@cnn: JUST IN: Multiple police vehicles have had their windows broken in front of the CNN Center in Atlanta. Protests are taking place in multiple cities over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Fernando Alfonso / CNN: CNN Center in Atlanta damaged during protests
Andrea V. Watson / Atlanta, GA Patch: ATL Mayor, Rappers Urge Rioters To Go Home After Violence Flares
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast: Fire and Fury: Crowd Attacks CNN Center in Atlanta
Tessa Duvall / Courier-Journal:
A reporter and camera operator appear to be shot with pepper balls fired by an officer during live segment on protests in Louisville, KY; LMPD issue an apology — A WAVE 3 journalist was live on air Friday night when a law enforcement officer turned toward her, aimed and began to fire …
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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons / @guthriegf: Police firing pepper bullets at our local NBC affiliate news crew live on TV. https://twitter.com/...
Tessa Duvall / @tessaduvall: UPDATED: “I want to apologize,” a Louisville Metro Police spox said. “It's not something that should have occurred if she was singled out as a reporter, and that is what the video looks like occurred.” https://www.courier-journal.com/ ...
@time: Police officials claim they made the arrest of the CNN crew because the reporters allegedly did not move when asked to. Live footage, however, shows Omar Jimenez, a reporter for CNN who is black, politely telling police officers that they were complying https://time.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Plouffe / @davidplouffe: 1) He is going to cause more reporters to be shot. 2) Transparently afraid there will be Russian and MAGA ties confirmed to the looting and violence. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailyshow: (1/2) Trevor on George Floyd, the Minneapolis protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper: “While everyone is facing the battle against coronavirus, black people in America are still facing the battle against racism... and coronavirus.” https://twitter.com/...
Brit Hume / @brithume: This writer seems to imagine that the rioters who have attacked journalists are Trump supporters responding to his attacks on the media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Journalists Targeted at Protests by Police, Hit With Rubber Bullet and Tear Gas
Maria Cramer / @nytimescramer: Pepper bullets are called a less lethal weapon, not non lethal, because fired directly at a person, the shot can be fatal. Boston learned that in 2004 when an Emerson student was killed by police with a pepper bullet that hit her in the eye. https://twitter.com/...
Shellie Sylvestri / WAVE-TV: WAVE 3 News reporter hit with rubber bullets during Louisville protest
@wave3news: UPDATE: WAVE 3 News management has issued a statement regarding reporter Kaitlin Rust and photojournalist James Dobson being hit with pepper balls by an LMPD officer Friday night while covering a protest in downtown Louisville. https://www.wave3.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: The freedom of the press is precious and increasingly tenuous, in this country and around the world. It's been a very bad few weeks for it. This is unacceptable and wrong. https://www.wave3.com/...
Sue O'Connell / @suenbcboston: I've had a lot of excellent, comprehensive training on how to be safe when reporting in the field. Not included: what to do when the police fire pepper bullets at you while your doing your job. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Cannon / @newscannon: Why shoot first? I'd like to hear @louisvillemayor explain why officers could not motion or verbally ask them to move. If Louisville Police do this to journalists on TV, what are they doing when cameras aren't rolling? @pressfreedom https://www.courier-journal.com/ ... via @courierjournal
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: via @FlyingMezerkis apology does not seem sufficient, that officer needs to be identified and fired https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: This stuff was happening to journalists at protests long before Donald Trump came along. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Fournier / @ron_fournier: This is what happens when the president is the United States spends three years calling the media the enemy of the people. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: again: if this is happening to people who are clearly journalists, what is happening to protesters? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Amid record ratings and chaos on cable news, Jeff Zucker considers running for NYC mayor, NBC's boss ponders CNBC as a nightly right-wing talk channel, and more — Cable networks are facing threats, and opportunities, in a national crisis. Now, Fox is fighting back and CNBC is looking to the right.
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Fox News, threatened by @mmfa & @slpng_giants, has created a secret new unit to push back https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: And the new boss at NBC is considering turning CNBC into a right-wing talk channel at night https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: NBCU Said Mulling Right-Wing Programming For CNBC
Ben Smith / @benyt: CNN's Jeff Zucker is thinking about running for Mayor of New York next year https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Building secretive units to covertly discredit critics isn't something most news orgs do! https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Pay attention - this is serious stuff. Trump has gone out of his way, repeatedly, relentlessly, to attack Comcast ('Con-cast!') at his rallies & pressers and his attacks are working - Comcast now wants to create a new Fox News on CNBC to appease the Orange Fascist in the bunker: https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Being destructive and defeitful is so core Fox News that they're actually spending money so that disreputable people can try and help Fox maintain. Won't work. 1) Because we have receipts; 2) We're already onto their cable fees (fox's biggest revenue source). https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: I wonder how Jeff Zucker's CNN reporters feel about him giving this scoop to the NYT. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Caplan / Breitbart: CNN's Jeff Zucker Hints at Run for Office: NYC Needs ‘Strong Mayor in the Aftermath of This’
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: If Trump wins re-election, more and more media companies and platforms will cave to Trump's threat to grind them down if they don't transmit regime propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Given Fox's business model, “create a secret smear squad” is significantly more cost-effective than “stop airing bigotry and propaganda.” https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: As yes, the liberal media. A guy Obama tapped to run the BBG pivoting his network to right-wing MAGA talk with Mark Levin. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: So far most companies have resisted the “regulatory favors for right-wing propaganda” deal that Trump's put on the table but Facebook said yes and it looks like Comcast may join them. It seems unwise to just assume Amazon and TimeWarner will say no forever. https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: Counterpoint: the network that does fluff CEO interviews, shills for Wall Street billionaires and aired Rick Santelli's disgusting rant against poor people is already a right-wing talk channel https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: @OmarJimenez: “Jeff Zucker said right after I got out, he told me that he made the most important call of my life for me. I assumed it was to the governor. He said, ‘No ... [it] was to your mother.’ He called my mother to let her know I was okay & I really did appreciate that.” https://twitter.com/...
Patrice Peck / New York Times:
A freelance reporter reflects on this exhausting and peculiar time for black journalists covering death and suffering during the pandemic and protests — But we keep on keeping on. — Ms. Peck is a journalist. — Two weeks ago, when I first pitched this essay about the unique stressors …
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LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times: Black journalists describe the emotional consequences of covering endless police brutality, most recently with George Floyd
Wesley / @wesleylowery: The difficulty in these moments is it's impossible to say objectively true, historically neutral things grounded in research, reporting & expertise without a large swath of ppl (including journalists) interpreting them as “political opinions” because so few have done the reading
@nytopinion: “As we've heard again and again, these are extraordinary times. However, it's an especially peculiar time to be a black journalist,” writes @SpeakPatrice. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patrice Peck / @speakpatrice: I wrote about the unique stressors of being a Black journalist covering Black death/suffering during the pandemic, the industry's own racial disparities & the importance of institutional support & equitable compensation for our labor (invisible work incl.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lucy Westcott / @lvzwestcott: “Investment in black journalists is critical, not only through equitable compensation for our contributions, but also in addressing burnout, layoffs and mental wellness, particularly among those of us who keep on keeping on” https://www.nytimes.com/... (by @SpeakPatrice)
Evette Dionne / @freeblackgirl: Black people were already navigating a lot of trauma and grief because of racial disparities in who contracts coronavirus and who dies from it. Now, we're facing even more trauma and grief, and Black journalists are a part of that. Take care of them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: This from @Yamiche, who has covered these stories as closely as anyone... I've literally felt all consuming physical pain for days. Then one of my brothers posted a photo from a protest and I felt fear like never before in my life. Fear I'd wish on no one https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Spoke w/ @LZGranderson about covering this as a black reporter. I said, “I feel like I got in a car accident. I survived, but I can see all of the air bags...Then I get back in the car & get in another car accident, & the airbags go off again...& again.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation — Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots — Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian: Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots: dozens of jobs to go after it's decided artificial intelligence can do the editing. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: Microsoft News just cut dozens of editorial workers as it shifts to an AI-driven system of picking stories
Adam Banks / @adambanksdotcom: What tech giants should be thinking: we're paying journalists just to pick stories, shouldn't we be funding journalists who actually report stories? What tech giants actually think: this app scrapes whatever looks like news into a page with “News” at the top, that's good enough https://twitter.com/...
@maltelandwehr: Microsoft just replaced 10% of their journalists and editors with AI. The future it now. https://twitter.com/...
Mattia Peretti / @xhgmattia: Some more journalists lost their jobs in the middle of this awful pandemic and that's the sad news. I regret that it was used in this article to purposefully feed the lazy & IMO rather useless narrative of “the robots are stealing our jobs”. Here's why. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: During these troubled times, the only journalists I trust are the bots made by the creators of Tay https://twitter.com/...
Judith Moeller / @judith_moeller: Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots. Time for quality media to show the world why journalists should select the news - and maybe how AI can support them in that rather than replace them. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Chris Roper / @chrisroper: Scary times. But not unpredicted. “Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Francis Whittaker / @frittaker: Solidarity to all the journalists losing their jobs at the website I started my career at. It's a shame because this kind of ‘algorithm-is-everything’ Big Tech hubris almost never works and is doomed to fail. You can't replace news sense, nuance and sensitivity with machines. https://twitter.com/...
Louise Ridley / @louiseridley: Impossible as a journalist not to be a little alarmed by “a global shift away from humans”. Thinking of those losing jobs. It will be interesting to see how this works. The fact that dozens of people were employed to select stories shows you it isn't a simple job. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Lewis / @paullewismoney: Microsoft sacks human journalists and uses AI to curate its news site, which takes stories written by humans from other sites https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: This is a good thread on one aspect of MSFT employment of journalists (Bear in mind too this is where FB et al is likely heading with its fact checking ) https://twitter.com/...
@indigenousai: so the company famous for debuting their super-intelligent chatbot that turned into a nazi after less than 24 hours online is now firing journalists and replacing them with AI. should be fine 🙃 https://www.theverge.com/...
Chris Boyd / @paperghost: that worked great for facebook https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Harry Smith / @smitharrytv: Dystopian stuff https://twitter.com/...
Peter Geoghegan / @peterkgeoghegan: Microsoft is sacking its 27 homepage journalists and replacing them with AI. This feels like both a big reputational risk and bad PR to save a couple of quid from a company that had income of $126billion last year. https://twitter.com/...
@sarphanuzunoglu: A sad quote: “I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am - AI has taken my job.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: here's my story on Microsoft laying off journalists to replace them with AI https://www.theverge.com/...
Paris / @davidparis: Gotta respect Silicon Valley's commitment to putting journalists out of work. Not satisfied with starving traditional media, they're going the extra mile by hiring journalists to fire themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Tor Thorsen / @thorsen1nk: Not that I expect moral fortitude from Microsoft, but this is pretty messed up: https://twitter.com/...
@iroughol: As a journalist formerly employed (indirectly) by Microsoft, I have many thoughts. I'll share a few disorderly ones, on MSFT doing news, on AI curation and on the plight of tech contractors. (I see you, reporters: Don't look for insider info here, I've got none.) 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Microsoft Is Switching Out MSN's Contract Journalists for AI
Charlie Beckett / @charliebeckett: AI tech is replacing human labour and sometimes jobs in every area of working life. This is a rare example of a complete 'news ‘service’ being replaced. Our research (cited in the article) shows most AI/ML in journalism replaces boring, repetitive work or complex data tasks https://twitter.com/...
Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News: The Future Is Now: Microsoft Lays Off Workers to Use Artificial Intelligence
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Reporters at South Carolina's Post & Courier, owned by Evening Post Industries, express concern at being forced to return to offices, despite rising COVID cases — “It just seems cruel,” one staffer said of the Post & Courier's edict. The announcement came the day after S.C. had its highest single-day jump in COVID cases.
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@janiehaseman: also buried in here: a @postandcourier editor was fired for allowing a *reader* to share a @Poynter story (about the @postandcourier's WFH policies) to a subscriber FB page. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: On the same day that South Carolina had its largest number of coronavirus deaths, the company that owns the Post & Courier had a message for the newspaper's staff: You're all coming back to the office next week https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: The @postandcourier is a terrific local news success story, and @SCMitchP is a great editor who I have to think is getting terrible orders from above. But this is ridiculous. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: I don't know of any major news outlet that is forcing employees back into the office except this one: https://twitter.com/...
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost:
TikTok's Creative Learning Fund, which launched in April with $50M to support creators producing educational content, adds Self, WWD, and Upworthy as partners — TikTok announced last month that it would pledge $250 million in support during the COVID-19 pandemic, with $50 million of that going to its Creative Learning Fund.
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Inside Paramount's decision to relinquish Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon to Apple; sources: the studio felt a script change didn't justify ~$180M budget — The studio balked at a script change that flipped Leonardo DiCaprio's role: “Smaller scale, same budget.”
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@thr: Long before the pandemic shut Hollywood down, Paramount was tentatively prepared to back #MartinScorsese's ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ based on the David Grann non-fiction book about the 1920s murders of Osage Nation Native Americans https://thr.cm/8q2Fo9J
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: Boy, this is a weirdly aggressive piece against Martin Scorsese. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: One detail from this story that I like: Scorsese went more than 100% over budget on his very art-house movie, Silence. https://twitter.com/...
@masasoncap: Great stuff & new info. Also: this is how I want to read about $NFLX & The Irishman, not the unprovable positive takes, like in the WSJ write-up. “Only Netflix would take on The Irishman, and whether it thinks it got its money's worth is known only within its secretive walls.” https://twitter.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Apple will “get a first-hand sense of the complete impossibility of controlling Scorsese” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... via @thr
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Meanwhile, in Hollywood. Paramount balked at financing Scorsese film after DiCaprio's role was changed. Now Apple is footing the whole bill—and it will be big. Paramount to release the movie with no risk but low returns. Auteur directors will take note. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Julia Love / Reuters:
Mexican broadcaster Televisa says it will launch a mobile virtual network operator service to compete with Carlos Slim's America Movil — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican broadcaster Televisa said on Sunday it will start offering mobile phone service, a bid to challenge billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil …
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