Media News - Thursday, February 02, 2012

Journalists press NYPD on media access issues

A coalition of media organizations and journalist groups sent a letter to the New York Police Department on Wednesday saying it has to take more steps to resolve reporter access issues. The letter, the second in recent months, said there continued to be times when officers had interfered with reporters on the job, even after police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told officers in November that they could be disciplined if they disrupted media access. The NYPD issued a letter in response outlining the steps that have been taken to train officers on media access issues. The letter also gave details on some investigations into various complaints, saying that the NYPD had reprimanded an officer and a sergeant involved in two incidents that media outlets complained about; that another incident had been investigated and no reprimand issued, and that in regard to an incident following the Thanksgiving Day parade, the officers involved could not be identified. The NYPD letter did not give specifics on what the complaints were. The signatories on the media letter included representatives of The Associated Press; The New York Times; WCBS-TV; the National Press Photographers Association; the Daily News; Thomson Reuters; WABC-TV; NBC Universal and WNBC-TV; the New York Press Photographers Association; Dow Jones; Bloomberg News; the New York Press Club, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. (Wall Street Journal)

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