News Updates from NPPA.org http://www.nppa.org/ 2012-05-22T04:40:02+01:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) 2012-05-21T19:05:34+01:00 2012-05-21T19:05:34+01:00 http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/05/nato.html Donald Winslow

Updated: At least one photographer was arrested and another struck over the head Sunday while covering anti-war protesters marching in opposition to the NATO summit in Chicago.

2012-05-18T22:55:26+01:00 2012-05-18T22:55:26+01:00 http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/you_have_a_right_to_remain_rec.php Donald Winslow

For the past five years Carlos Miller, a former newspaper reporter, has covered incidents and issues surrounding the public’s right to record the police. In a Columbia Journalism Review profile he explains how he advocates knowing the law and using that knowledge to stand up to law enforcement in what he often refers to as “The War on Photography.”

2012-05-18T12:43:37+01:00 2012-05-18T12:43:37+01:00 http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/05/kim.html Donald Winslow

NPPA board member Yunghi Kim has been presented with an International Photogrpahic Council Professional Photography Leadership Award by the United Nations organization in New York.

2012-05-17T22:39:58+01:00 2012-05-17T22:39:58+01:00 http://www.pixiq.com/article/broward-sheriffs-deputy-criminally-charged-after-deleting-video Donald Winslow

When he realized cell phone video might be used against him by investigators, police say Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Costanzo deleted it. Which now has him facing charges including tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. But what about all the other police who delete video?

2012-05-16T20:23:52+01:00 2012-05-16T20:23:52+01:00 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/05/meet-the-new-guy-10-questions-with-photoshelter’s-new-ceo/ Donald Winslow

PhotoShelter's new CEO Andrew Fingerman answers 10 questions about his life before the company, major industry trends, and his vision for the future of the organization and the business of photography.

2012-05-16T20:16:09+01:00 2012-05-16T20:16:09+01:00 http://www.pixiq.com/article/department-of-justice-slaps-baltimore-pd Donald Winslow

The U.S. Department of Justice is coming down hard on the Baltimore Police Department as it prepares to issue a settlement to a man whose footage they deleted after he recorded them making an arrest. NPPA and other media groups just recently sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter insisting that he take action to protect our rights.

2012-05-16T19:27:47+01:00 2012-05-16T19:27:47+01:00 http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/shooting-from-the-hip/2012/05/the-great-john-h-white.html Donald Winslow

Chicago Tribune photojournalist Scott Strazzante tells the tale of photographing the great Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist John H. White for a cover story in NPPA's News Photographer magazine, and the inspirational role White played in the young photojournalist's life not only back then, but even today.

2012-05-16T11:41:18+01:00 2012-05-16T11:41:18+01:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/13/robert-capa-gerda-taro-relationship Donald Winslow

Capa and Taro lived, loved, and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their time. As a new novel about them is published, Sean O'Hagan of The Guardian explores their real relationship.

2012-05-16T11:25:34+01:00 2012-05-16T11:25:34+01:00 http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/barnstorming-for-25-years/ Donald Winslow

In 1988, Eddie Adams gathered some of the best photographers in the business – along with 99 aspiring ones – at his upstate New York farm to "see what would happen." The result was a four-day workshop that's been going now for more than two decades. And this October the Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshop will celebrate its 25th anniversary, Jim Estrin reports in LENS in The New York Times.

2012-05-15T18:39:54+01:00 2012-05-15T18:39:54+01:00 http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-committee-launches-special-hotline-media-covering-chicago-nato-summit Donald Winslow

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has established a local hotline for journalists covering the upcoming NATO summit who may be arrested or otherwise obstructed from covering protests and other public events. The hotline will be staffed by volunteer attorneys around the clock.

2012-05-15T11:23:28+01:00 2012-05-15T11:23:28+01:00 http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/05/14/nppa-submits-comments-to-copyright-office-in-opposition-to-proposed-registration-fee-increase/ Donald Winslow

In response to a proposed copyright registration fee increase, NPPA has submitted written comments asking that the idea be reconsidered as well as a suggestion that they streamline the registration process.

2012-05-14T19:12:11+01:00 2012-05-14T19:12:11+01:00 http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/03/12/nppa-reporters-committee-seek-dismissal-of-charges-against-photojournalist-covering-occupy-protest/ Donald Winslow

Charges of trespass, vandalism, and conspiracy against NPPA member Bradley Allen have been dropped NPPA and media organizations filed a joint letter brief seeking dismissal. Allen was charged after he covered an Occupy Wall Street protest in Santa Cruz, CA, last year.

2012-05-14T13:15:41+01:00 2012-05-14T13:15:41+01:00 http://www.friendsofanton.org/ Donald Winslow

Some rare pieces of photojournalism are on auction Tuesday in New York to raise money for the wife and three children left behind when photojournalist Anton Hammerl was killed in Libya last year. Included in the auction collection are a rare Robert Capa D-Day print donated by ICP, and a Chris Hondros photograph shot in Libya shortly before he was killed there as well.

2012-05-10T21:48:53+01:00 2012-05-10T21:48:53+01:00 http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/05/faas.html By Richard Pyle

NPPA member Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, has died. He was 79.

2012-05-09T19:16:20+01:00 2012-05-09T19:16:20+01:00 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chuck-scott/id521891536?ls=1&mt=8 Donald Winslow

His photography earned more than 100 awards. He was a passionate and acclaimed newspaper picture editor. And he was the co-founder of Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. Now the 55-year career of Charles "Chuck" L. Scott is captured in an iTunes App created by Christina Baird that includes pictures, text, and video interviews.

2012-05-09T16:22:19+01:00 2012-05-09T16:22:19+01:00 http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/05/eddie_adams_day.html Donald Winslow

New Kensington, hometown of the great photojournalist Eddie Adams, has proclaimed June 9, 2012, to be "Eddie Adams Day." The celebration includes a gallery opening, a documentary screening, and a gala dinner with speaker and Pulitzer Prize winner John Filo.

2012-05-08T16:33:18+01:00 2012-05-08T16:33:18+01:00 http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/05/08/7th-circuit-court-of-appeals-upholds-right-to-record-in-public/ Donald Winslow

An appeals court has granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events.”

2012-05-08T15:58:21+01:00 2012-05-08T15:58:21+01:00 http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/05/08/rep-nekritz-re-introduces-bill-to-amend-il-eavesdropping-law/ Donald Winslow

An Illinois lawmaker has sponsored a bill that would amend the state's draconian Eavesdropping law. Under the new measure a person may record the conversation of a police officer who is performing a public duty in a pubic place if the conversation is audible to the unassisted ear, without breaking the law.

2012-05-06T12:17:57+01:00 2012-05-06T12:17:57+01:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/world/americas/mexico-photographers-found-dead-in-veracruz-state.html Donald Winslow

The bodies of three photojournalists were found dismembered in Veracruz, Mexico, days after a crime reporter for a national magazine was killed in her house there. Journalists reporting on Mexico's drug and crime violence are at growing risk, human rights activists report.

2012-05-03T15:51:46+01:00 2012-05-03T15:51:46+01:00 http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/05/free.html Donald Winslow

NPPA has joined with leading free speech and digital rights groups to call on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to focus attention on the alarming number of arrests of people documenting Occupy protests.