Resources For Journalists at #DNC2012

by: Oreo

Mon Aug 27, 2012 at 16:00:00 PM EDT

For emergencies
If you run into trouble and can tweet, a couple of moves might come in handy.



• Please feel free to send a tweet to the Greater Charlotte Society of Professional Journalists’ account at @charlottespj if you run into legal issues. Ensslin notes in his roundup that national SPJ has a legal defense fund.
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Free Press uses the tag #journarrest for cases in which journalists are arrested.
• From the National Press Photographers’ Association, General Counsel Mickey Osterreicher is tweeting from @nppalawyer.
• From the North Carolina ACLU, Chris Brook, legal director, is available for your calls at his office (919-834-3466) or cell phone (919-830-4228).
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg police representatives have held several meetings with local media and community members. Deputy Police Chief Harold Medlock met with the Greater Charlotte Chapter of SPJ in June. Here are notes from that meeting.

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