Tracking Journalist Arrests at Occupy Events

Since September we have been tracking journalist arrests at Occupy protests around the country. This page serves as a hub for information about those arrests. Use the links below to dig deeper into the details.

1) Visit this post for the most comprehensive information about each arrest:

2) For a list of each journalist's name, organization and date/location of arrest, see this spreadsheet:

3) See below for a map of all the journalist arrests, with links to videos and journalists' Twitter accounts:

4) We have created a public Delicious account to collect all the articles written about these arrests:

5) Finally, here is a list of legal resources for journalists covering protests:

Blog Posts:

Call Your Mayor: Stop the Journalist Arrests, Dec. 9, 2011

40,000 People Call on U.S. Mayors to End Journalist Arrests, Dec. 1, 2011

Pressure Builds in Response to Journalist Arrests, Nov. 22, 2011

Mayor Bloomberg's First Amendment Problem, Nov. 21, 2011

Journalism Community Condemns Press Arrest, Nov. 18, 2011

Occupy Crackdown Targets Journalists, Nov. 15, 2011

Background:

In 2008, more than 50 journalists covering the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., were arrested outside the convention center. We led the tracking of journalist arrests then, and you can see the full list with links here. Within days we had collected more than 60,000 petition signatures and held a rally on the steps of city hall, calling for the release of all detained journalists and demanding all charges be dropped.

See this video of journalist Nicole Salazar’s violent arrest from 2008.

Also relevant is this ongoing list of links tracking the debate over press credentials.