On Thursday, Aug. 23, journalists, activists and citizen reporters from around the country came together for our second Webinar on reporting at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. This live online event combined critical information on safety and legal issues with personal stories from journalists who have been arrested and have spent their careers covering civil unrest and protests.

Free Press sponsored the Webinar in partnership with the International News Safety Institute, the National Press Photographers Association and the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University. Aug. 23 also marked the release of the Digital Media Law Project's comprehensive guide to local laws and issues in Tampa and Charlotte.

You can watch the entire event below, and you can catch up on part one in the series here. Look below the video for a list of important resources contributed by the panelists and audience during the event.

Roundup of links and resources:

About the Panelists:

• Susie Cagle’s website: http://www.thisiswhatconcernsme.com/ and Tumblr: http://susie-c.tumblr.com/
• International News Safety Institute (INSI): http://www.newssafety.org/
• National Press Photographers Association (NPPA): http://www.nppa.org/

• Digital Media Law Project: http://dmlp.org/ and DMLP page for conventions: http://www.dmlp.org/conventions
• Free Press: http://www.freepress.net

Legal Guides and Resources:

• Comprehensive guide to reporting at the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions: http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2012/announcing-guide-reporting-2012-republican-and-democratic-national-conventions
• RCFP, NLG and SPLC legal hotlines are listed in the DMLP's one-sheet guide: http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/Pocket%20Version%20of%20Convention%20Guide.pdf

• NPPA’s regularly updated blog on covering the conventions:  http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/08/07/cover-the-conventions-and-protests/
• Covering civil unrest: navigating crowds and police responses: http://na.newssafety.org/?p=34
• Information on the Privacy Protection Act: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000aa
• Student Press Law Center: http://www.splc.org/
• Justice Department on the right to record: http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-criminal-law-reform/doj-defends-your-right-record
• More information on the right to record the police: http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/recording-police-officers-and-public-officials
• This is a list of prohibited items for Tampa:  http://www.tampagov.net/paofiles/Event%20Zone%20Ordinance/EventZoneGuidelines.pdf
• See Electronic Frontier Foundation guide for cellphone security in this list: http://jcstearns.tumblr.com/post/16764540982/legal-resources-for-journalists-covering-protests

Stories of Arrest and Press Suppression:

• Storify tracking journalist arrests: http://storify.com/jcstearns/tracking-journalist-arrests-during-the-occupy-prot
• Read about Natasha Lennard's arrest: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

• Susie Cagle talked about her November arrest in this interview with Comic Alliance: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/08/cartoonist-susie-cagle-occupy-oakland-arrest/ and wrote about it here: http://www.alternet.org/story/152990/police_state_in_oakland_one_reporter's_arrest_contradicts_official_story/?page=entire
• This happened to Carlos Miller earlier this year: http://www.pixiq.com/article/here-is-the-recovered-video-police-deleted-of-my-arrest
• Looking at the 1972 DNC in Miami Beach 40 years later: http://jpgmag.com/news/2012/08/photography-the-law-some-conventional-wisdom.html
• Rosie Gray on black bloc's desire to avoid coverage: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/photographers-attacked-by-black-bloc-occupy-prot
• Awareness and covering the black bloc: http://newssafetyblog.org/2012/06/08/covering-the-black-bloc/

Other Links:

• A humorous take on how journalists can distinguish themselves from protesters: http://thewinnower.com/advice-when-covering-protests-what-should-journalists-do-to-avoid-getting-thrown-in-jail/
• INSI's tipsheet on covering natural disasters: http://na.newssafety.org/?p=48
• One citizen journalist, Judah Robinson, created his own press pass for the RNC: https://twitter.com/judah_robinson/status/238800846807261184/photo/1

A special thanks to Megan Robertson and Gena Mangiaratti for helping produce both of these Webinars.