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RTDNA has launched a revised Cameras in the Courts State By State Guide to help journalists understand current court rules and procedures.

Nearly every state in the union has provisions to allow the media to use video cameras and microphones in courtrooms in some circumstances. In some, cameras are a routine sight at the trial court level. In others, on the state’s appellate courts or supreme court have cameras, operated by the courts themselves. For the members of the media, understanding the rules and procedures in your state is necessary to provide the best and most complete coverage of your government’s judicial branch in action. 

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Before today, 8 journalists have been murdered while on assignment, at work or for their work in the U.S. since 1992 | Poynter

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The Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian has now spent a full year in an Iranian jail

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Why almost no one’s covering the war in Yemen

by By Jared Malsin, CJR

More than 1,200 people have died since Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a military operation in Yemen in March, but the country has become so hard to access that news organizations are finding it almost impossible to cover the conflict. At the same time, a lack of electricity and poorly developed internet infrastructure are hampering the citizen journalism and online activism that have offered a window into other recent conflicts.

Yemen’s political turmoil has gone underreported for years, but journalists say the current conflagration has made reporting on the country more difficult than at any other time in memory. There are vanishingly few foreign journalists in Yemen as a result of the violence on the ground, access restrictions, and wavering commitment on the part of international news organizations.

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Image:  An air strike hits a military site controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen’s capital Sanaa May 12, 2015. Khaled Abdullah

Vox got no threats for posting Charlie Hebdo cartoons, dozens for covering Islamophobia