“Journalists on the G20 front line” – The Guardian.
Here is a link to a Comment is free post I wrote for The Guardian yesterday on journalists and the G2O protests. Plus the National Union of Journalists is considering legal action over the treatment of photographers and journalists by the police.
Also, here is some good news, Kent police have apologised to my friend and colleague Jess Hurd, who was stopped and searched four times while covering last year’s climate camp. I was stopped and searched with Jess two of the times. You can see this for yourself below in Jason N. Parkinson’s film Covering Climate Camp.
Plus, take a look at The Guardian investigation into police surveillance of journalists and protesters that I worked on with Paul Lewis to get a better context of the events surrounding the policing of the climate camp.
“Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters” – The Guardian.
“Caught on film and stored on database: how police keep tabs on activists” – The Guardian.
“Under surveillance: police target environmental protesters and journalists” – The Guardian.
“Police surveillance: ‘They’re focusing on the press more than the protesters’” – The Guardian.
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