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Staffers across 11 Southern California newsrooms, including the Orange County Register, voted Friday to unionize.

Staffers across 11 Southern California newsrooms, including the Orange County Register, voted Friday to unionize.

Photojournalists sue Los Angeles police over alleged misconduct during 2020 demonstrations Jake Dima © Provided by Washington Examiner A pair of photojournalists this week filed lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department and the county's sheriff's office that detail allegations of mistreatment during protests last year. Nicholas Stern, a freelance photographer, sued LAPD, a host of individual officers, and chief Michel Moore for using "less lethal projectiles to thwart free speech and freedom of the press" during a May 30 protest, according to the Los Angeles Times....

Print Two photojournalists have alleged in separate federal lawsuits this week that they were harassed and physically assaulted by law enforcement officers at protests in the Los Angeles area. The lawsuits come amid heightened tensions between local police and the media after a year in which reporters and photographers have repeatedly alleged abuses by officers — including verbal harassment, physical assaults and baseless detentions and arrests — as they’ve sought to cover street demonstrations. Nicholas Stern, a freelance news photographer, alleged he was repeatedly struck with a baton...

I was convinced that I could handle it all—including healing myself. On the eve of Malaysia’s first lockdown last year, a dull ache pulsed on the left side of my neck like an omen. The discomfort soon bloomed from the base of my skull to my shoulder blade, before slowly coursing its way through my arm. But I muffled my unease by focusing on a world under viral assault. The pandemic made it easier to quiet my own issues, both to myself and to everyone else. Edging toward breaking point, and the accompanying frustration at a body that lets me down, has become a recurring event in my pandem...