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From SPJ Georgia: “[We] support journalists including those who are students covering the protests about the Gaza conflict on college campuses such as Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Georgia in Athens.”
Find the full statement below ⬇️
Join SPJ, NPPA and Student Press Law Center for a webinar on the legal rights of visual journalists — student and pro —covering campus protests. The panelists will discuss privacy rights of protestors, practical tips, censorship concerns and more.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay and it’s a great day for @TXDPS to drop the charges against FOX 7 Austin photographer Carlos Sanchez. 🧵1/7
Happy #WorldPressFreedomDay ! SPJ celebrates and honors all journalists who serve as watchdogs for their governments and cover news important to citizens around the world. A free press is vital to democracy. Journalists, thank you for all the work that you do!
So grateful for SPJ President's leadership of Society of Professional Journalists. She worked tirelessly this week to assemble a coalition of dozens of journalism groups to demand that misguided criminal charges be dropped vs. a TX journalist reporting on a protest. Authorities must listen!
SPJ President SPJ President spoke with LiveNOW from FOX again about the 2 misdemeanor charges against FOX 7 Austin photojournalist Carlos Sanchez and mentioned the coalition of more than 40 entities that are demanding Texas DPS to drop the charges: youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ky68…
AMEJA Asian American Journalists Association est. 1981 AAJA Photographers Associated Collegiate Press College Media Association Education Writers Association Indigenous Journalists Association #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 NAHJ National Press Club NPC Journalism Institute NPPA National Scholastic Press Association Online News Association PEN America Quill and Scroll RTDNA Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Media Guild of the West 🧭 The Authors Guild National Writers Union NewsGuild-CWA PacificMediaWorkers Signatories continued: CA News Publishers Association, Latino Journalists of California CCNMA, LA Press Club, SAAHJ, #WomenInJournalism, Committee to Protect Journalists, Defending Rights & Dissent, First Amendment Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law, Florida FAF, FIRE, Freedom of the Press, Media Alliance, News/Media Alliance, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, RSF in English, Student Press Law Center, Susan E. Seager
.College Media Association Associated Collegiate Press Society of Professional Journalists Student Press Law Center and FIRE join together to write an open letter to administrators: stop impeding student journalists and their advisers.
collegemedia.org/release-colleg…
SPJ President SPJ President spoke with LiveNOW from FOX about the arrest of a FOX 7 Austin photographer last week and the felony assault charge against him that Texas DPS dropped yesterday.
You can watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=ClA4xi…
College administrators, law enforcement and protesters, I strongly urge you to let them do their jobs without interference.
They are critical to the first rough draft of history and for them, the future of the fourth estate is right now!
#JournalismIsNotACrime 4/4
SPJ celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander members, journalists and friends this #AAPIHeritageMonth ! We appreciate all of your hard work and leadership in the journalism industry.