9 posts tagged press credentials

It is definitely fascism when it happens to you Posted on May 14th, 2008 by blogger In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s world of an "Israelized" America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of

It has been a wild few days for freelance photographer Nichole Torpea. The 22-year-old UMSL grad was shooting the My Chemical Romance concert at the Pageant for Riverfront Times this past Saturday night when, she says, she was assaulted by a member of the band's security team.

Preface: Early in the week, when the Obama campaign announced it’s visit to Hickory, I was contacted by Matt Comer, the editor of Q-Notes.  Matt invited me to attend the event and write a piece for the paper.  Making contact with Obama’s campaign earlier in the day, I was told that press credentials would be given out at the event.

For the past week I have been doing everything I can to get my hand on a one-day media/press pass to be allowed to take photographs on the field of Dolphin Stadium during batting practice before the games. I have seen guys on the field all the time and they never bother the players and as anyone who knows anything about Wax Heaven, these photos will not be used to make a profit.

You may have noticed some subtle changes at Wax Heaven, specifically the removal of some of the main links at the top of the page (Wax TV, Heavenly Collections, etc.). Fear not, there will still be product reviews and video box breaks but that is no longer going to be the only main focus of the site.

One of our communications networking groups took us to court -- the Supreme Court of the United States -- recently to hear from Kathy Arberg, the Court's spokeswoman and director of public information.

In his PBS report on citizen journalists being denied credentials, Mark Glazer focuses on two citizen journalists. One is ePluribus Media's John Spinelli, who, as a print writer, had been credentialed, but now that he is online, was denied. As Glaser said: the “time-worn debate of Bloggers vs.

Heather Steans is all too typical, and my recent posts about being ejected from the Heather Steans victory party on February 5 was not about me. It was not even about Heather Steans. (See Blogger Ejected From Bitter Victory Party and Steans Ejects Citizen Journalist From Victory Party.) The story involved me, yes.

Tooling on Twitter this morning, I stumbled cross Robert Scoble's inducement to follow his reportage from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Since his tweet was short and non-specific (aren't all tweets?), I passed it by: Scobleizer [seesmic] Qik video - http://seesmic.com/v/XDV3jG...