Web Site: At Least 11 Photographers Arrested at RNC Protests

Of the 800-some people swept up by police at Republican National Convention protests last week, at least 42 were journalists, including 11 photojournalists. This is according to a list compiled by the Minnesota Independent, a liberal publication that's part of the Center for Independent Media. On the list of arrests:

• Tom Aviles, WCCO photojournalist
• Ben Garvin, Pioneer Press photographer
• Ed Matthews, University of Kentucky photojournalism student
• Jonathan Malat, KARE-11 photojournalist
• Stephen Maturen, Minnesota Daily assistant picture editor
• Britney McIntosh, University of Kentucky photojournalism student
• Jason Nicholas, New York Post freelance photographer
• Mark Ovaska, Rochester freelance photographer
• Matt Rourke, Associated Press photographer
• Jeff Schorfheide, Madison, Wis. Badger-Herald photographer
• Jim Winn, University of Kentucky journalism adviser

Previously on PDNPulse:
AP Photographer Matt Rourke Among Those Arrested at RNC
RNC Arrest Update: Students Released

(Story spotted on Editor & Pubisher.)

Comments

[Jody Warner]

There was also a freelance photographer arrested at the scene not mentioned in the story. Dan Thompson, a recent graduate of the photojournalism effort at Columbia College Chicago was arrested and detained for 36 hours.

Thompson was a staff shooter at the Columbia Chronicle during the Spring 2007 semester and now shoots freelance stories around the country.

Jody Warner
Senior Photo Editor
Columbia Chronicle
Columbia College Chicago
ColumbiaChronicle.com
TheVisualTruth.com (personal site)