In Oakland, Photojournalists Covering Crimes Become the Victims
Posted: 3/4/2013 | By: Carol Pogash | New York Times
OAKLAND, Calif. — In recent months, journalists covering crime and other stories here have themselves become victims of crime, robbed of expensive cameras, sometimes at gunpoint.
In less than a year, every major television news station in the Bay Area has been a victim, some more than once. One experienced newspaper photographer has lost five cameras.