Beating Five Minutes

With the news focusing on the Occupy protesters all around the United States, but in one location, photographers should be careful on their time spent covering the news photography.

In Washington D.C., due to a "decades old law", it is an arrestable offense to be taking a photograph in a public place for more than five minutes.


With this new law, it is giving police more power to arrest photographers, during these Occupy events. But fear not photojournalist, the National Press Photographers Association are asking the State attorney to repeal or revise this law and other ordinances that limit photography.

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Rebelling Against Establishment

Here is a prime example of a journalist going for what he deems 'newsworthy'; however, does it come at a cost?

Jason Mattera, who wrote an ambush interview on Vice President Biden, is the new subject around Washington.

"I don't really care what the Washington establishment says," says Mattera who is the editor of Human Events. "If they want to give me affirmation or condemnation, it doesn't matter to me. My audience is not D.C. It's to get it ricocheted around the country."

I find those very encouraging words, that you don't have to focus on the one area you are living at to have your audience, but to branch out and aim for people all around the world.

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$5 Million Donation for Journalism Exhibit

HP donated $5 million to build a new journalism exhibit at the Newseum in Washington D.C.

The new exhibit will focus on technology and how it relates to journalism.

The exhibit will be an interactive place for visitors to experience the news, and it will show how certain forms of media may be used to report the news first.

In the article created by the Washington Post, one form of media was specifically noted.

Twitter was mentioned as to how it may be the first to deliver word or pictures of breaking news. Many journalists these days are utilizing Twitter to spread the news quicker.

The Newseum is clearly also relevant to journalists these days because it seems to educate the public on the importance of social media with how news is spread. I still here people complaining day to day about how Twitter, especially, is boring an inapplicable to them.

In reality, Twitter is applicable to those people because if they care at all about the news, which I think they should, then Twitter is an important tool for keeping up with it.

My hope is that this new exhibit at the Newseum will help non-journalists to better understand the uses of social media.

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