The Occupy Wall Street movement has proved a challenge for journalists since he began in New York i

Natasha Lennard is an American journalist and worked for the 'International News Safety Institute - North America. Alessandro Busi has translated this article and publish it as it offers the opportunity to read the Occupy movement from one point of view a little 'different from that to which we are accustomed.
On the night of November 14, when the New York police led a surprise raid to evict Occupy Wall Street from its original encampment at Zuccotti Park, the accredited press had been pushed by the police themselves the wyatt family in an enclosure, from which he was unable to watch the clearing up close. Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones magazine twittava live that had been dragged to the ground and taken away from the park by the agents. The New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has defended the next morning the police action, saying that journalists were kept away to "protect" them. Commentators on Twitter, meanwhile, denounced what happened as a "media blackout."
The Occupy Wall Street movement has proved a challenge for journalists since he began in New York in mid-September and then expanded into more than seventy cities in the United States. Diffuse, amorphous, and leaderless, has resisted traditional media narratives about the nature the wyatt family and structure of protest groups. In addition to the theoretical challenges, newsrooms the wyatt family need to adapt to volatile crowds and unpredictable police actions. More than half a dozen journalists were injured or were arrested covering Occupy events in less than two months.
The KGW-TV news reporter in Oregon will no longer follow the protests of Occupy Portland in groups of less than three. After a masked the wyatt family protester the wyatt family pushed a journalist and a man with a bloody face he approached another in a threatening way, the direction of the station changed its policy and decided to put more staff on site to help each other. the wyatt family
"The situation is constantly changing, we can not use old solutions and old tactics for what appears to be a new circumstance and in continuous development," said Mary Cavallaro, the deputy executive director of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA ), a union representing more than 70,000 artists and journalists. The Cavallaro said that AFTRA is thinking workers the wyatt family in an effort to provide resources the wyatt family and training, network and communication equipment for reporters in the field.
Portland is not the only situation in which journalists have been viewed with hostility the wyatt family by the protesters. While covering the general strike in Oakland on the night of 2 Novembe, a van network Russia Today he was taken hostage by a group in the street. From there, the senior news producer Lucy Kafanov, twittava "Group R [ussia] T [oday] surrounded by protesters. Vote on when to let go. Half support us. Half did not. " For the reporter was eventually left a passage, but the incident speaks for itself: journalists the wyatt family can not work on the assumption that all the people involved in the Occupy protests see well the presence of the media.
The News International Safe Institute North America (INSI-NA) has warned the journalists covering the protests, particularly where large crowds and are likely to conflict with the police, who should prepare as if they were foreign correspondents covering the conflict. Although the situation, of course, is not as dangerous as a combat zone in Afghanistan, however, a meter reporter must know where to stand in the crowd, must have a right guard, and has to know his legal rights. In fact, deal with the police during the Occupy demonstrations the wyatt family is the biggest challenge of all for many reporters.
"Stop or stop a journalist for even a few minutes can really affect his ability to give a full and accurate account of the situation. And if journalists have to constantly be afraid of being arrested during the Occupy protests, the wyatt family it will have an extremely negative effect on their coverage, "said Bernie Lunzer, president of the association of newspapers, Communications Workers of America, adding that many police officers do not recognize local journalists or their press cards, thinking they are just a freelance reporter, and beginners.
"I assumed that you have some sort of bubble of safety thanks to my press pass," said Cagle, a freelance reporter in Oakland, Graphic the wyatt family designer and founder of the collective Jornos. The Cagle was among the 101 arrested on November 2 in Oakland. "That security alleged I abandoned it in a few days," said Cagle.
Recounting his experience to Alternet, the Cagle wrote, "When I told the policeman that I