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Tag: access to places

Helpful reminder: Journalists don’t have a special right to break the law

Uncategorized
March 26, 2014September 5, 2018 Sara Gregory

The two CNN journalists who were arrested Tuesday for trespassing on the World Trade Center site illustrate a recurring theme in journalism — one that student journalists struggle with, too.

Tagged access to places, First Amendment, freedom of the press, newsgathering, trespassing

Florida college punishes student reporter for failing to leave suicide scene

News
September 26, 2013December 4, 2018 Samantha Sunne

Dylan Bouscher, editor-in-chief of Florida Atlantic University’s newspaper, the University Press, was surprised to be summoned to his school’s student conduct office earlier this month and hit with four disciplinary charges related to refusing a police order to leave a crime scene.

Tagged access to places, Florida, Florida Atlantic University

Ohio grad student photojournalist arrested for photographing emergency response

News
November 6, 2012September 5, 2018 Jordan Bradley

An Ohio University graduate student photojournalist was arrested last week for attempting to take photos at the scene of a medical emergency.

Tagged access to places, Ohio, Ohio University, photojournalism

Student editor arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street anniversary protests

News
September 17, 2012September 5, 2018 Jordan Bradley

New York police arrested a student journalist Monday who was covering the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Tagged "journalist arrest", access to places, Hunter College, New York, Occupy Wall Street, The Envoy

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