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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 — MSNBC's Ali Velshi, CNN commentator Keith Boykin were among journalists recounting being hit by rubber bullets, attacked, and in some cases arrested while covering protests.
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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.
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/...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times: Times reporter recounts being hit with tear gas and rubber bullets by Minnesota police
Washington Post: ‘The norms have broken down’: Shock as journalists are arrested, injured by police while trying to cover the story
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?
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
@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/...
Brian Stelter / CNN: Journalists covering protests face assault and arrest
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: From Minneapolis to broken streets of Philly, the ‘human capital stock’ has finally had enough
@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/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: NYC Sunday night, @WSJ reporter https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Just reprehensible rhetoric from the President of the United States, coming as so many reporters face enormous challenges — and in many cases, risk their personal safety — to report the news. 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/ ...
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Nick Waters / bellingcat:
Bellingcat says it has so far identified at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by law enforcement during the protests in the US — 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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@johncusack, @michaeladams317, @keithboykin, Slate, @_nullifidius, @mollyhf, Vox, Committee to Protect …, Variety, NME, @jane_c_hu, The Guardian, The Independent, @jamilsmith, LAUGHTER AND TEARS, Meduza.io, @malonebarry, @richard_schiff, @yasminyusuf200, @therealbamfhbic, @learmonth, @sensherrodbrown, @eliothiggins, @yamiche, @eliothiggins, @blairmillertv, @nicdawes, @levitt_matt, @freedomofpress and @jonathanlanday
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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/...
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/...
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
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
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/...
Katelyn Burns / Vox: Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests
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:
Zoe Tidman / The Independent: George Floyd protests: Woman who ‘lost eye’ tells people to keep demonstrating
Celia Sue / LAUGHTER AND TEARS: Free Press Literally Under Fire
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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, @colbyhall, VICE, @brianstelter, @cnni, Associated Press, The Guardian, @jamesfoleyfund, @cnnvalencia, @hcheadle, @michikokakutani, @doctoryasmin, @marthamaccallum, @edokeefe, @akela_lacy, @ron_fournier, @shannonbream, @kailijoy, @bryanllenas, @kaitlancollins, @jdiamond1, @nischelleturner, @guypbenson, @brianstelter, TheBlaze, The Sun, Rolling Stone and The Daily Caller
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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/...
Colby Hall / @colbyhall: Fox News internal memo from Suzanne Scott condemning attacks on their reporters and crew last night: https://twitter.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/...
@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/...
@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/...
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/...
Dr. Seema Yasmin / @doctoryasmin: Will teach this tweet in journalism class. Look at which sentences are active and which are passive. 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 …
Jason Hanna / CNN:
CNN crew released after being arrested while covering the Minneapolis protests; Omar Jimenez asked where to move to, but police said they didn't move when told — (CNN)A CNN crew has been arrested while covering Minneapolis protests live on the air Friday morning.
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@cnn: Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@newday: Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.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.
HuffPost: HuffPost Reporter Chris Mathias Arrested While Peacefully Covering NYC Anti-Racism Protest
@cnnpr: A CNN reporter & his production team were arrested this morning in Minneapolis for doing their jobs, despite identifying themselves - a clear violation of their First Amendment rights. The authorities in Minnesota, incl. the Governor, must release the 3 CNN employees immediately.
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.
@cnnpr: This is not accurate - our CNN crew identified themselves, on live television, immediately as journalists. We thank Minnesota @GovTimWalz for his swift action this morning to aid in the release of our crew. https://twitter.com/...
@greg_jenner: Comedians are often more perceptive, persuasive, and powerful than we give them credit for. And Trevor Noah is one of the absolute best, his book Born A Crime is well worth a read, and this is worth a watch 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News: White House downplays Minnesota claims of far-right role in riots, in dispute over who's fueling violence
@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/...
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/...
@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/...
Prof Thuli Madonsela / @thulimadonsela3: This analysis by @Trevornoah left me in tears. Injustice riles me but the #GeorgeFloydMurder transcends injustice It is a gift though that is forcing more to confront structural racism and related inequalities as we face #COVID19 #GeorgeFlyod https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: By the way, this is a gift to Chinese propaganda, and Hong Kong police as well. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Jespersen / @ryanjespersen: What a read. Dedicating this to the listener that texted CHED this morning to blame news media for “accelerating and exacerbating every combustible situation they cover”. 🎥💪🏼⚖ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast: Journalists Under Attack Show How Trump's Hate for the Press Has Spread
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Journalists Under Fire: Reporters Covering Protests Face Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas, Arrests
Rania Khalek / @raniakhalek: American streets are on fire after a black man was tortured to death on camera and this is what concerns some people 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/...
Bernie O'Donnell / @bodonnellingray: I never expected to see this advice in an article from the Poynter Institute: “Don't wear your credentials on a lanyard around your neck. They can be used to strangle you in a scrum.” https://www.poynter.org/...
John Eggerton / Multichannel News: CPJ to Journalists: Be Safe Out There
Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller: Some Press Groups Remain Silent About Assault Against Fox News Reporter As Others Condemn It
Tyson Whelan / @tyson_whelan: CNN reporter @OmarJimenez just got arrested by Minnesota state police live on @NewDay with no explanation. This is the most extraordinary moment of TV news I've ever seen. The camera man and producer are now being arrested. https://twitter.com/...
@cnn: “It didn't make any sense to me,” law enforcement analyst Charles Ramsey says about the arrest of a CNN team in Minneapolis who had clearly identified themselves as press. “...There's no way something like that should occur.” https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Noelle Phillips / Denver Post: Denver Post photographer struck twice by pepper balls during George Floyd protest
Dylan Scott / Vox: Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Watch: @OmarJimenez's account of his arrest this morning https://twitter.com/...
Josh Stearns / @jcstearns: The troubling arrest of a CNN journalist and camera crew in Minnesota last night is part of a pattern over the last decade, and it starts in part back in Minnesota in 2008 /1 https://twitter.com/...
Joe Concha / The Hill: Journalists voice support for Fox News crew hounded by protesters: ‘Unacceptable’
@cnnpr: We accept @GovTimWalz's apology & appreciate the sincerity of his words about the arrest of our crew this morning. As journalists, the First Amendment gives us not only the right but also the responsibility to shine light in darkness and hold those in power to account.
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: My other colleague @joshscampbell is also on the scene in Minneapolis. He just reported that police approached him, asked him who he was with, he said CNN. And they say “ok, you're good.” This is minutes after Omar, who is black and Latino, was arrested nearby.
Ryan Cooper / The Week: What happens when the police lose all legitimacy
@cnnpr: With that in mind, we will move forward and continue our work in Minneapolis and everywhere else where stories need to be told.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: WATCH: Fox Reporter Driven Off the Air By Live Chants of ‘F*ck Fox News’ During DC George Floyd Protest
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: This is stunning, bizarre & wrong. Watch the full video: It is INEXCUSABLE for the police to arrest reporters for doing their job. The @CNN crew acted responsibly during the arrest, but this should have NEVER happened. #FirstAmendment 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/...
Annie Apple / @survivinamerica: Dear white friends, please stop stating how impressed you are with Omar's poise under such immense display of racism. As Black folks we have to swallow our emotions and our pain everyday. At work. At school. On the streets. At the stores. It's not a compliment. It's a sadness https://twitter.com/...
CWA / @cwaunion: We condemn the arrests of CNN crew covering the Minneapolis protests. No member of the press should ever face intimidation while doing their job. @NABETCWA President Charlie Braico and @newsguild President Jon Schleuss (@gaufre) respond. https://twitter.com/...
@rtdna: We stand with @OmarJimenez and CNN and believe this morning's arrests were not only egregious but unconstitutional. Based on the CNN video we have seen, there appears to be no justification for the arrests. - @MurrowNYC https://twitter.com/...
Ian Rapoport / @rapsheet: Hard to fathom a reporter being more professional than @OmarJimenez in this moment while being arrested for doing his job on live TV. Unimaginable grace and poise. https://twitter.com/...
Mondaire Jones / @mondairejones: This is not just a nakedly racist act, but an assault on the most basic tenets of our democracy. Citizen journalists and a free press helped bring awareness to the vicious murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. We need them now more than ever. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Baldwin / @brookebcnn: Never in my 20 years in Journalism did I think I'd see this. @OmarJimenez doesn't want the story today to be about him — but let us never forget this moment. Let's also be mindful of those who've been arrested *not* on live TV and weren't as fortunate to be released so fast. #CNN https://twitter.com/...
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/ ...
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/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Journalists Targeted at Protests by Police, Hit With Rubber Bullet and Tear Gas
Joshua Nelson / Fox News: Fox News DC videographer recounts being attacked by protesters
Shellie Sylvestri / WAVE-TV: LMPD officer fires pepper balls at WAVE 3 News reporter, photographer during Louisville protest
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/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Watch Officer Fire Pepper Balls at Reporter in Louisville and Other Videos of Police Violence
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/...
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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Gregg Re / Fox News: Secret Service agents wounded outside White House, car bombs feared; official says Trump was taken to bunker
@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
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Unicorn Riot, a five-year-old nonprofit media collective, has been covering the Minneapolis protests by focusing on interviews highlighting protesters' views
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Fox News: Rioting across the nation leaves cities reeling as hundreds arrested, National Guard called in …
Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller: ‘We Were Very Clearly On Our Own’: Fox News Reporter Chased, Accosted By Protesters Says Situation Was ‘Scary’
Sarah Taylor / TheBlaze: Disturbing video captures moment police arrest CNN reporter and his crew during a live on-air shot
Victor Pickard / @vwpickard: This is why we need these kinds of media institutions in every town and city across the land. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Britni de la Cretaz / @britnidlc: If you've never heard of @UR_Ninja until now, here's a great @CJR story about them from 2017. They've been doing crucial work for years, and Minneapolis is their home town. https://www.cjr.org/...
Unicorn Riot / @ur_ninja: We will provide updates as we are able on the developing #GeorgeFloydProtest/uprising in #Minneapolis & #SaintPaul (Minnesota's #TwinCities) as well as other cities where solidarity actions are taking place. Revisit our #StPaul thread from this afternoon: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@deathspeliz: currently watching @UR_Ninja's documentary on #NoDAPL, i really recommend donating to them, their work in media and journalism is incredibly important, especially right now as they are on the ground in MN https://unicornriot.ninja/...
Unicorn Riot / @ur_ninja: ⬇️Thread of HD stills from tonight in #Minneapolis, taken during the ongoing #GeorgeFloyd uprising in the #TwinCities. Slides 1-2: maX it PAWN, 28th Ave & Lake Street 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 right-wing talk channel at night, 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: 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/...
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
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/ ...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Blue-chip advertisers strike deals to sponsor TV news segments, raising questions about which employees can participate without harming credibility — Lisa Ling's series “This Is Life,” has run on CNN since 2014. Now she has another newsy program - one that would be hard pressed to find …
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Brian Steinberg / @bristei: TV news anchor or TV pitchman? Madison Avenue hopes the answer can be ‘Both’ Advertisers are pressing TV-news divisions to allow their anchors to be part of commercials... https://variety.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: In an era of rising concern about unreliable information and ‘deepfakes,’ Madison Avenue is aggressively pursuing TV-news anchors to help make commercial pitches... https://variety.com/...
Mark Ghuneim / @markghuneim: At a time when trust in legacy media is imperiled and truthful news is at a premium ... ..this strategy may not be in the best interest of network news.. Madison Avenue Pushes to Blur Lines Between TV Anchors, TV Ads https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Should TV-news anchors also be in the business of delivering ads as well as headlines? https://variety.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: My father used to chuckle about his first job in TV news, at WABD ("Alan B. DuMont") in NYC in 1956. It was for Bond Suits, and Mike Wallace would interrupt the broadcast to enthusiastically proclaim: “You get two pairs of pants with every suit!” https://variety.com/...
Hank Green / Washington Post:
Recent acquisitions indicate Spotify wants to centralize the open podcasting ecosystem and become the medium's YouTube, making creators beholden to its policies — Hank Green is the chief executive of the educational media company Complexly and the author of the novel “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” …
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Kevin Smokler / @weegee: As said here, let's go over the definition of “podcast” one more time. A podcast is something you can subscribe to, to be delivered to you, on the listening platform of your choice. W/o all three of those in place, a podcast just “an .mp3 file on the internet.” https://twitter.com/...
@postopinions: People and organizations who create podcasts primarily want access to audience and ways to make money, @hankgreen writes. “If Spotify can leverage cheap capital to lock a large audience into its ecosystem, podcasts would need to go there.” https://www.washingtonpost.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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