Tennessee’s Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is on the hunt for an unidentified individual who was filmed over the weekend attacking a photojournalist with the WSMV local news station. The attack unfolded on Sunday in front of Nashville’s Napier Elementary School, where broadcast journalist Caresse Jackman and a station photojournalist were filming for an upcoming segment, according to a release published by WSMV. Mediate reported that the segment the pair of journalists was working on focused on the efforts of two local women to sew some 300 face masks for students returning to in-person learning at the school. Footage of the violent […]
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Paramount Network might have canceled Cops earlier this year but evidently the show is not dead yet; its production company has begun filming new episodes. Cops and the similarly-themed A&E show Live PD were both canceled earlier this year amid protests against police brutality. Although new episodes will not air in the U.S., a representative for Cops producer Langley Prods. told Deadline they will still debut in international territories. After George Floyd died at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country—spurring a re-evaluation of America’s relationship with its police force and, by […]
Shots have been fired for the second night in a row at the Atlanta Black Lives Matter vigil for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot by police after fighting them and stealing an officers taser. A man who filmed the incident was violently attacked by the Black Lives Matter mob that was demanding that he delete the footage. “A man was attacked by some of the crowd because I BELIEVE he was filming in the area after the gunshots. A few people punched him and others were shouting at him to delete the video,” Washington Examiner reporter Julio Rosas tweeted. […]
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced winners of their 2020 journalism awards on Tuesday. CNN was awarded for filming the pre-dawn FBI raid of Roger Stone. The winners include ‘journalists’ from PBS, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times and ProPublica, the WHCA wrote: THE MERRIMAN SMITH MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESIDENTIAL NEWS COVERAGE UNDER DEADLINE PRESSURE FOR BROADCAST: TRENDING: Chicago Mayor Now Pleading With Walmart And Other Companies Not To Leave The City CNN FOR “FBI. OPEN THE DOOR.” From the judges: CNN’s reporting on the Roger Stone arrest began a month earlier, with a clue about […]