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Nick Waters / @n_waters89:
[Thread] List of at least 100 separate incidents where journalists experienced violence from law enforcement in the US amid protests after George Floyd's death — We've hit 100 incidents where journalists experienced violence from the police during the #GeorgeFloyd protests. When I started this thread, I thought there would maybe be 7 or 8 examples. Instead what I have seen is a serious disregard for the free press by law enforcement. https://twitter.com/...
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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/...
Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times: ‘They came toward us firing pepper spray and rubber bullets,’ photographer says
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.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 110 times since May 28
@thelantern: Our reporters were sprayed by police after identifying themselves as “news media” repeatedly. News media are exempt from the curfew. #columbusprotest 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
Jennifer Maloney / @maloneyfiles: My colleague @tylergabriel_ tweeted about being injured by NYPD during last night's protests. Then a *criminal justice professor* at @WeberStateU posted this. @pressfreedom https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: Reports of Violence Against Journalists Mount as U.S. Protests Intensify
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/...
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/...
Nick Waters / @n_waters89: The third clear example of a news crew being deliberately targeted by law enforcement in the US I've seen. Anybody else seen similar incidents? https://twitter.com/...
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News: Peaceful Protesters Were Gassed Outside The White House So Trump Could Get A Photo Op At A Church
Adam Weinstein / New Republic: This Is Fascism — “Ur-Fascism is still around us …
Tom Jones / Poynter: Peaceful protesters were attacked as Trump spoke, and the media — thankfully — was there to shine a light on it
Fortune: ‘Simply for doing their jobs’: International monitors condemn attacks on U.S. press freedoms
Ari Shapiro / @arishapiro: As a journalist, I know that I may be a target of law enforcement when I cover conflicts overseas. I know I may be a target of protesters when I cover domestic conflict. But I never thought I'd see police target the press in the United States like this. https://www.google.com/...
Tyler Hersko / IndieWire: It's Not a Coincidence That Journalists Covering Protests Are Being Attacked by Police
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/...
Matthew Dessem / Slate: Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
Jim Newell / Slate: The Best Trump Can Do Now Is to Do Nothing
Katelyn Burns / Vox: Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests
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/...
@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/...
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker / @uspresstracker: Student journalists in Ohio calmly explain they are exempt from curfew. A few seconds later, a cop comes up and pepper sprays them in the face. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The police abuse the press. Again.
Amanda Barrett / Associated Press: AMERICAN DIARY: To be black and a journalist at this moment
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: The presidents explosive rhetoric is working https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Para / @paracelsus: The way— specifically the manner— these policemen are targeting journos has stopped being a coincidence https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: Police in Washington DC assaulted these Australian journalists (part of the violence unleashed so Trump could get his photo op) https://www.sbs.com.au/... https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: Police officers are sanctioned to commit violence; that means journalists must apply sharp scrutiny to their actions, not grant automatic credulity, @Jon_Allsop writes. https://www.cjr.org/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: If the headlines and TV news coverage don't make this absolutely clear, and relentlessly, journalists will have done the president's dirty propaganda work for him. https://twitter.com/...
Alfons Lpez Tena / @alfonslopeztena: US police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past 4 days — In the majority of the cases the journalists were clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Adam W Gaffney / @awgaffney: Here's another reporter shot by a KIP, in the neck. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: 100 incidents of police using violence against journalists at #GeorgeFloyd protests... And that's just the ones compiled in this list. The real figure is likely to be higher. https://twitter.com/...
Esmeralda Bermudez / @bermudezwrites: Reporters are being targeted and attacked nationwide by police simply for documenting and witnessing this historic moment. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post: Police turn more aggressive against protesters and bystanders alike, adding to disorder
John Bresnahan / @brespolitico: U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past four days » Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker / @uspresstracker: On the @USPressTracker site, we're publishing stories on all of them. You can see all the #GeorgeFloyd protest stories we've posted so far here. However, there have been so many attacks, and they've been happening so fast, this is just a fraction of them https://pressfreedomtracker.us/ ...
Sean Carroll / @seanmcarroll: The President of the United States routinely refers to the press as “the Enemy of the People.” You can't be surprised when some people actually listen to him. https://twitter.com/...
Ilan Goldenberg / @ilangoldenberg: The President has spent 4 years inciting against the media & signaling to police that there will be no consequences for violent tactics. This is the natural result. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Well, that's what happens when the press are called the enemy of the people over and over. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: For years we had faux outrage & endless op-eds on the threat to free speech on campus, over ‘PC gone mad’, the Intellectual Dark Web et al. Now we have an actual, real, violent, state-sponsored threat to free speech, to the media, and many of those folks are predictably silent. https://twitter.com/...
Columbia Journalism / @columbiajourn: Reporter for @DMRegister, @andreamsahouri, a 2019 @columbiajourn graduate, was pepper sprayed and arrested while covering protests in Des Moines. She broadcast her arrest from the back of a police van. Glad to hear she's out now and okay! https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: As of Monday morning, @bellingcat's Nick Waters had identified 92 incidents of violence against U.S. journalists covering the Black Lives Matter protests over the last week. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Josie Ensor / @josiensor: This is awful news. @agrayphoto and I have been working together in New York. He was arrested by NYPD despite identifying himself as press. More than 90 journalists have been arrested, attacked or injured, some of whom deliberately, while covering the protests across the US https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: Trying to keep up with the chaos in city after city, one of the most prominent things that stands out: Police being protested over how they use force are ramping up that force, in some cases taking aim at bystanders + journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: The press has been targeted before in protests but this scale is new. It's in every city. I'll say it again: This looks coordinated. https://www.vox.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Advancing a “escalating war on the freedom of the press!” narrative requires ignoring that police have been blatantly ignoring the First Amendment rights of protesters — responding to their constitutionally protected speech with state violence — for years
Andrew Heslop / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA: CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering US protests over police violence
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:
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian: ‘Rotten racism’: newspapers around the world react to George Floyd protests
Des Moines Register: Register reporter pepper-sprayed, arrested while covering George Floyd protest at Merle Hay Mall
Joe Concha / The Hill: More than 60 reporters attacked, arrested or harassed since George Floyd protests began, group says
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: MSNBC's Garrett Haake, Ali Velshi Struck by Rubber Projectiles While Reporting On-Air
Torey Van Oot / Star Tribune: Media members injured, one arrested while covering unrest in Minnesota
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New York Times:
Reporters and photographers say the treatment of journalists in recent days reflects an erosion of trust in media that's seeped into law enforcement under Trump — 'I've really never seen anything like this': Reporters and news photographers describe being roughed up, arrested and shot …
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Alexandra Stevenson / @jotted: “I've been covering conflict both nationally and internationally for many years, so I know the dangers involved in these situations, especially when you get between riot police and protesters, but I wasn't expecting them to attack us directly.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mujib Mashal / @mujmash: “The president has called the news media ‘the enemy of the people.’ I think all of that has taken a toll.” (One could go back & read the repeated concerns from our @nytimes bosses alone over past 3 years, concerned this exactly where things were headed) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “It is common in autocratic countries for journalists to be arrested during demonstrations and riots, but rare in the United States, where freedom of the press is guaranteed by the First Amendment.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: feels like the needle is moving. from shop owners telling reporters ‘let my shop burn if there can be justice’ to the empathy w desperate protestors to more refusal to cow to looting tropes to the framing in mainstream stories like this—something feels new https://slate.com/...
Corby Kummer / @ckummer: “I don't care, get down,” an officer responds. Then Mr. Adams was sprayed with what he believes was pepper spray. “That's something I would expect in Turkey,” he said. “But in America, I wouldn't have expected this.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Maggie Koerth, a reporter for FiveThirtyEight, was covering a protest in Minneapolis when police drew a weapon on her. “We said, ‘press, press!’” They kept pointing the weapon. And one of them said: “Shut up.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@hirokotabuchi: “There is now a culture of impunity for attacks on the press.” Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests, by @RachelAbramsNY @marcatracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kristoncapps: It was @WesleyLowery who made this point: the same First Amendment that guarantees the freedom of the press guarantees the right to peaceably assemble. It's not a separate right going out the window, it's the other shoe dropping https://twitter.com/...
Bill Neely / @billneelynbc: Interesting how often the police said to reporters “I don't care” and “shut up”. @NBCNews reporters among those attacked, sprayed, gassed & fired on, as US President blames ‘lamestream Media’ for protests. #idontcare : the new normal. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jksteinberger: Yup. Agree. I'm old enough to remember Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo, when the media were like so, so happy to play along with the demonization of black victims. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel C. Abrams / @rachelabramsny: The First Amendment protects the right to a free press and the right to assemble peacefully. Police have used brutal tactics against both in the last few days. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “In the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
John Hendren / @johnhendren: I can confirm this is happening in Minneapolis. They shot rubber bullets at us AFTER we yelled “We are press.” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: “The president has called the news media ‘the enemy of the people.’ I think all of that has taken a toll.” An extraordinary development has been the number of journalists who've run afoul of law enforcement during protests. By @RachelAbramsNY and me. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Chapman / 7NEWS.com.au:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls for an investigation into the unprovoked assault of an Australian journalist and cameraman by police in DC — Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded an investigation into the assault of an Australian journalist and cameraman at the hands of US Police.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite: WATCH: Aussie News Captures ‘Violent’ Attack on Their Reporters By U.S. Police; Prime Minister Calls For Investigation
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: MSNBC's Jo Ling Kent Hit By Protester Fireworks; Police Assault TV News Crew Outside White House
news.com.au: US ambassador Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. releases statement after Sunrise reporter and cameraman attacked …
Danica McLellan / @danicamclellan: The ongoing and persistent violence against members of the media is now devolving into an international incident. https://twitter.com/...
Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: Australian PM Scott Morrison has demanded an investigation into the assault of an Australian journalist and cameraman at the hands of US Police, that was broadcast live on one of the country's biggest morning shows https://7news.com.au/...
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
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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.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Northeastern's School of Journalism denounces police attacks against the press
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News: Journalists covering George Floyd protests face attacks from police, advocacy groups say
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.
@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/...
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: The Protests Will Spread the Coronavirus
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!
Ryan Cooper / The Week: The fabric of America is coming apart
Mark Vancleave / @mdvancleave: After arrests of journalists in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune is issuing us new king-size press badges. For @shijundu's, the company lawyer decided to use her booking photo from her arrest while coving #PhilandoCastile protests in 2017.😆 https://twitter.com/...
Julia Turner / @juliaturner: The talented, brave photographers of the @latimes—including one who police fired tear gas at in Minneapolis, from feet away, even though she wore a jacket marked PRESS—have captured extraordinary images of the protests and conflicts with police: https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer, activist and author, was shot in the left eye by police in #Minneapolis. She is one of a number of journalists around the US who were attacked, arrested or otherwise harassed during their coverage of the uprisings https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: Journalists play a vital role in shedding light on abuses of power. For 4 years Donald Trump has spewed anti-journalist rhetoric, even encouraged violence. Now we're seeing the impact of his words. I stand with journalists who continue to speak truth to power no matter the cost. https://twitter.com/...
David Roberts / @drvox: Exactly as intended, Trump's attacks on the press have put journalists in danger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tim Cushing / Techdirt: Cops — Newly Wary Of Looking Like Authoritarian Assholes — Open Fire On, Arrest Journalists
Julie Mason / @juliemason: One photographer was reportedly hit in the face with a rubber bullet that exploded her eyeball and left her partially blind. https://www.cnn.com/...
Matt Brennan / Los Angeles Times: From an L.A. riots doc to a reality TV respite: 5 shows to watch this week
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/...
Katelyn Kivel / COURIER: ‘Walk With Us’: Michigan Showed Police Across the Country How They Should Be Treating Protesters
Julian Wyllie / Current: Public media reporters arrested, face attacks from police while covering protests
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: In Las Vegas, two photojournalists on assignment to cover protests were taken into police custody on Friday night. Review-Journal editor @Glenn_CookNV says “they never should have been touched, let alone arrested and then booked into jail.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Paul Blest / VICE: Driving Through Crowds and Firing on Porches: Cops Across the Country Were Out of Control This Weekend
@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/...
Jared Kaufman / Nosh Box: The Minneapolis restaurant owner who said “Let my building burn. Justice needs to be served”
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/...
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/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: NYC Sunday night, @WSJ reporter https://twitter.com/... 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: Hours after journalists are arrested and assaulted covering protests across the country 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/...
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/ ...
@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/...
@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/...
@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/...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ union condemns assault on reporter
@washingtonpost: Journalists at several protests were injured, arrested by police while trying to cover the story https://www.washingtonpost.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/...
Sari Botton / Adventures In “Journalism”: Supporting Journalists and Journalism, Which Are Under Assault
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/...
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/...
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.
Max Berger / @maxberger: More evidence of police targeting and shooting at journalists. These are authoritarian tactics: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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
@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/...
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/...
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/...
Adweek:
Adweek has been acquired by Shamrock Capital, an investment firm with ~$1.9 billion of assets in the media, entertainment, and communications sectors — Deal to significantly expand reach of leading media and events company — Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm …
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
The Guardian has expanded testing of its registration wall globally to gather first-party data; unlike the NYT's registration wall, readers can dismiss it — News publisher the Guardian has ramped up tests of its registration wall to its global audience, with growing numbers …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday: In first-party data play, The Guardian rolls out registration wall
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hundreds of books scheduled for release in the spring and summer are now on track for fall, creating a crowded field alongside ongoing crises and the election — Books scheduled for release this spring and summer are now on track for fall, when authors will be fighting for attention …
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@authorsguild: “Most editors say they are making decisions about release dates on a case-by-case basis, weighing factors like an author's following.” @xanalter reporting on the possibilities for an overly jam-packed fall season of books. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Pamela Paul / @pamelapaulnyt: The big question in book publishing right now is when on earth should a new book come out? Mid-pandemic? Mid-election? Sometime in the unknown territory of 2021? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kimberly Burns / @kimberlyburnspr: “Most of us expected that, by fall, things would be, if not exactly back to normal, pretty close to it,” said the literary agent Bill Clegg, “Now, two and a half months later, that idea has a distant, once-upon-a-time quality to it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Barry / @barrypierce: seriously, every major publishing house is just dropping all their delayed releases in August/September, it's an absolute nightmare https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights
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Fortune, New York Times, @nytimesbooks, @librarythingtim, AAP, MediaNama, Protocol, Beyond Search, @ornithophobix, @digitaldutta, @verge and @mathewi, more at Techmeme »
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Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books
@nytimesbooks: Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused Internet Archive of piracy, for making over 1 million books free online during the coronavirus outbreak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Spalding / @librarythingtim: Indeed, publishers—and authors, bookstores and librarians who think about it—do not believe that owning a physical copy of a book entitles you to hand out digital copies for other people to use for free. They think authors deserve to be paid. Crazy! https://twitter.com/...
AAP: Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive for Systematic Mass Scanning and Distribution of Literary Works
Aditi Agrawal / MediaNama: Four publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement
David Pierce / Protocol: Facebook vs. Mark Zuckerberg
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: The Good Old Internet Archive Attracts Some Legal Eagle Action
Shalmi / @ornithophobix: Shame on these big-name publishers for trying to restrict fair use of books when the pandemic has effectively made it impossible to access physical libraries. @internetarchive is an invaluable scholarly resource and must be protected at all costs. https://www.theverge.com/...
Srinivas Kodali / @digitaldutta: The @internetarchive is being sued by publishers and this is going to be an important copyright case. https://publishers.org/...
@verge: New comment from @brewster_kahle: “Publishers suing libraries for lending books — in this case, protected digitized versions, and while schools and libraries are closed — is not in anyone's interest.”
Lindsay Underwood / National Press Club:
18 journalism orgs, including The National Press Club, pen open letter to police to end the use of violence and arrests against journalists covering protests — The following open letter to police nationwide was signed by 18 organizations including: The National Press Club (NPC) …
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@pressclubdc, @mccarrennews, @lesliemac, @pressfreedom, @ona, @jamilahlemieux, @brianstelter, @baekdal, @nabj, @rtdna, @mccarrennews, @lindsaymaude and WebWire
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@pressclubdc: Today @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute, and 16 other journalism organizations called for law enforcement nationwide to halt the use of violence against journalists covering protests: https://www.press.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill McCarren / @mccarrennews: “When you silence the Press with rubber bullets you silence the voice of the public....do not abandon our Constitution and its First Amendment.” https://twitter.com/...
Leslie Mac / @lesliemac: Just the journalists huh? https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: CPJ joins @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute, and partner organizations in calling for police nationwide to halt the use of violence and arrests against journalists covering protests. @RSF_en @JamesFoleyFund @NABJ @womenjournos @nabtweets @freedomhouse https://www.press.org/...
@ona: ONA has joined with @PressClubDC and other organizations calling on law enforcement to stop violence against journalists. “When you silence the press with rubber bullets, you silence the voice of the public. Do not abandon our Constitution and its First Amendment.” https://twitter.com/...
Jamilah / @jamilahlemieux: Hard to “both sides” violence directed towards yourselves, eh? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: America's media advocacy groups have a message for law enforcement: “You must persuade your colleagues, commanders and chiefs, and the mayors and governors who direct them, to halt the deliberate and devastating targeting of journalists in the field.” https://www.press.org/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: As a media analyst, I obviously support this. But let's not forget that this protest isn't about us. Attacks on the press are incredibly bad, but it dwarfs in comparison to what is happening to black people. We should call on law enforcement to halt use of violence in general!! https://twitter.com/...
NABJ Headquarters / @nabj: We are proud to join the @PressClubDC as we call for law enforcement nationwide to stop the use of violence against journalists. #PressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
@rtdna: RTDNA joins the @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute and 15 other journalism organizations in calling for law enforcement nationwide to halt the use of violence against journalists covering protests. https://www.press.org/...
Bill McCarren / @mccarrennews: After this letter was released we heard from even more Press Freedom organizations wanting to sign on. I think we are now at a total of 21 organizations representing thousands of people. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Underwood / @lindsaymaude: “These cities belong to all of us. The people that live in them will learn of your bravery and courage and training through news coverage by journalists. Do not fire upon them. Do not arrest them. The world is watching. Let the Press tell the story.” @PressClubDC @brianstelter https://twitter.com/...
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Interview with Josh Raab, National Geographic's Instagram director, on managing the 11th most followed account on the platform with 137M followers — National Geographic's main Instagram account, @NatGeo, is the 11th most followed account on the platform, with 137 million followers at the time of publication.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bill O'Reilly's No Spin News, which currently airs on YouTube and on his website, will be broadcast twice daily by conservative digital TV network The First — Bill O'Reilly's show, “No Spin News,” which currently airs on his website and across YouTube, will be broadcast twice daily on The First …
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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
NYT faces criticism for print headline “As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows to ‘End It Now’”, a credulous framing reminiscent of last year's Unity vs. Racism debacle — New York Times print editor Tom Jolly previewed his paper's front page for Tuesday …
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Wild to compare print front page of Tuesday NYTimes with mobile front page this morning. The print headline might as well have been written in the White House, the mobile one, not so much. https://twitter.com/...
David Boardman / @dlboardman: I'm not among those who love bashing the @nytimes, which I consider our frontline defense against tyranny. But this headline is stunningly bad, totally missing what may be the most chilling day in the Trump presidency. https://twitter.com/...
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart: Left Slams New York Times over Front Page About ‘Chaos’: ‘Full-on Endorsement of Fascism’
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Interview with Ryan Grim on the Tara Reade story, including some valid criticisms of his work, and why asking if he believes her is the wrong question — The past few weeks haven't been kind to Tara Reade, the woman who has accused former vice president Joe Biden of sexual assault.
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Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: after championing the Reade story, Grim hasn't touched it in six weeks. @theintercept hasn't touched it in 3weeks. that kinda tells you all you need to know; https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mangy Jay / @magi_jay: Something that stuck out to me in this story on Ryan Grim's reporting on the Tara Reade story: he says he didn't have time to substantiate the assault allegations. Why did he have a time limit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Ryan Grim helped push the Tara Reade story into the mainstream. What does he think of it now? ... Solid, fair-minded look from @farhip who interviewed @ryangrim and also considers his critics' views https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood's powerful guilds and unions have been successfully pushing back against plans by media giants to restart production — UPDATED 7 AM — For an industry brought to its knees, anxiously waiting out the coronavirus shutdown that has left thousands of entertainment workers unemployed …
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@latimes: When Gov. Gavin Newsom had to quickly walk back comments about Hollywood productions, we saw the power of unions https://www.latimes.com/...
Rob Forman Still Slaps / @robsforman: GOOD. The workers must be at the table shaping how entertainment is safely made in our new reality. We all want to get back to work, but not at the catastrophic sacrifice our health, and that of our loved ones and communities. #UnionStrong https://twitter.com/...
Stacy Perman / @stacyperman: Everyone's got a plan about rolling cameras again, but it's the unions who hold sway. My latest in @latimes with @anoushasakoui https://www.latimes.com/...
Scott Frazier / @safrazie: This story illustrates the extent to which the accelerated reopening Newsom, Garcetti, et al are pushing is the product of unilateral negotiations between elected officials and bosses. Announcements are being made with no input from labor. https://www.latimes.com/...
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