Through the efforts of various senators, representatives, friends and activists, filmmaker Andrew Berends is on his way back to New York. A big sigh of relief. His translator who was also detained is not out of the woods yet. Here is the latest from the website:
From what we understand, Samuel George, Andrew’s translator, and another […]

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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was arrested at the Republican convention and it was captured on tape. She has been released, but the images are still sobering. Read the AP article>>

And documentary filmmaker and friend Andrew Berends has been detained in Nigeria where he has been filming. For those who don’t know Andy, he won […]

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Via Cynopsis Digital, “A congressional panel voted last week to shield journalists, ad-supported bloggers, vloggers and podcasters from having to reveal confidential sources in a variety of situations, defying stated wishes of the Bush administration. The Free Flow of Information Act defines journalism as “gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, […]

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Matt Dentler called my attention to this article at Sports Illustrated about Brian Bennett, a writer for The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) who was ejected from a NCAA baseball tournament for live-blogging the event. Somehow, the NCAA has a rule that prohibits this, seemingly considering it the same as a broadcast, which of course, they […]

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For those who have followed Josh Wolf’s story, you will be happy to know that he was released from prison following 7 and a half months behind bars for refusing to turn over his video coverage of a 2005 protest in San Francisco’s Mission District when a police officer was serverly injured. Prosecutors contend that […]

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