Photography and videotaping

A reporter and six protesters were arrested by the Philadelphia police at the Army Experience Center (AEC) on Sept. 12, OpEdNews.com reported. OpEdNews.com reporter Cheryl Biren was taking photos of policing arresting protesters when her own arrest occurred.

After a years-long battle to withhold images of abuse and torture at U.S.-run military facilities -- a battle lost in court -- the White House is being urged to reverse its position to release them to the public by two U.S. senators who still don't seem to get it.

Just when it seemed journalists had staked out anew the freedom to cover high school sports, a new legal battle has come to a head in Wisconsin.

Don't want to speak too soon, but on this last day of the Democratic National Convention it seems the events in Denver have unfolded minus the tense drama of waves of journalists swept into masses of detained protesters that marked the 2004 convention in New York City.

Indeed, the Reporters Committee hotline -- staffed in Denver by the law firm Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., to provide journalists with free legal assistance -- has recorded exactly zero calls so far.

With the Olympics underway, reports are streaming in from China this week of foreign journalists being detained, having photos deleted from their cameras and in at least one case getting roughed up by police while they work.

A independent videographer says he will not comply with a subpoena in a grand jury investigation into possible criminal activity at an Oregon pesticide rally.

 A jury acquitted former Galveston County Daily News photographer Nick Adams on Wednesday, more than a year after he was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly interfering with police by refusing to stop taking pictures of an arrest during the city’s Mardi Gras festivities.

Adams, now with the Appeal-Democrat [Marysville] in Northern California, was arrested in February 2007 after a League City, Texas, police officer told him to stop taking photographs.

After a year-long battle, Illinois newspapers can again freely photograph state high school championship events after striking a deal with the state's high school association, which owns rights to those events.

The embattled chief of a coal-producing company warned an ABC News producer that he was “liable to get shot” if he took video of him.

The incident occurred earlier this week in Kentucky when the producer, Asa Eslocker, was seeking comment from Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship regarding his controversial relationship with the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court.

An angry mob attacked TV reporter Charmayne Brown and photographer Ti Barnes while they were reporting from the scene of a homicide investigation, WSPA reports. Video of the attack shows that four people, including the mother and sister of a suspect in the investigation, surrounded Brown while punching her and dragging her to the ground. Brown also said the crowd yelled racial slurs at her and Barnes, who are black. Police arrested all four of the assailants.