Word: newsroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, we were appalled to learn that local police devalued the work of our colleagues at James Madison University’s student newspaper, The Breeze. Allegedly, 926 photographs were confiscated from its newsroom to be used as evidence for a campus riot, an action that violated the integrity and independence of these journalists. Regrettably, we felt it necessary to reiterate the idea that student newspapers are respectable journalism outlets and should receive the coverage of the Privacy Protection Act of 1980. By the same token, we also regret that national newspapers have relaxed their coverage of higher education. This...
...dozen police officers raided the James Madison University campus newspaper, The Breeze. They ordered the staff to turn over pictures taken at Springfest, an annual campus party that police broke up this year because it turned into a riot. On Friday, police entered The Breeze’s newsroom with a search warrant and threatened to seize all cameras, computers, and other documents unless the photos were turned over. Left with no choice but to hand over the photos, Breeze Editor-in-Chief Katie Thisdell complied. The police confiscated 926 photos, only 682 of which were pictures of the riot...
This incidence of search and seizure oversteps legal authority and is a violation of the Privacy Protection Act, which states that it is illegal to forcefully take unpublished material from a journalism source—an act Thisdell cited when the police entered the newsroom. Because student journalists should be protected in the same way that full-time journalists are, the police had no right to demand material that the newspaper is entitled to keep private...
Even if the police technically possessed the proper documentation to enter the newsroom, they inappropriately exercised their force by intimidating the staff and threatening to confiscate other items besides the photos. Demanding the photos was wrong on its own, but threatening to shut down the entire operations of a paper showed even bigger disregard for the newspaper’s rights...
...achieve a measure of success in making the world more aware of their movement with a black magic ceremony that spellbound news directors of international cable networks and their viewers. Whether they win their war of saiysat or not, the Red Shirts have certainly given resonance to the old newsroom adage: "If it bleeds, it leads...