AUDIO: Josh Wolf's mother talks about videographer's imprisonment

UPDATE: Leonard Witt poses questions about bloggers-as-journalists
Chris Peck's column: Wolf not a criminal?
Bruce Brugman (SFBay Guardian on Wolf as a hero.

Third-grade teacher Liz Wolf-Spada, who's son Josh Wolf, 24, is in federal prison for refusing to testify or turn over videotapes he shot of a San Francisco street political protest in which a police officer was injured, talks about why editors should be covering her son's case. Wolf, who is called an independent journalist and blogger by supporters, has been in prison since Sept. 22, 2006, for contempt of a federal court's order to respond to a grand jury subpoena. Wolf-Spada was interviewed in a Memphis restaurant on Jan. 14, 2007, after the close of the National Conference for Media Reform by [Memphis] Commercial Appeal Editor Chris Peck, journalism professor Leonard Witt, Media Giraffe Project director Bill Densmore and by Peggy Holman and Stephen Silha of the Journalism That Matters collaborative.   (Listen to 17-minute interview by clicking on arrow to left of "hipcast.com" bar below. Or DOWNLOAD MP3 PODCAST.)

Other links:

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press summary of case
• Wolf-Spada letter to Rocky Mountain News decrying two-class shield system
• Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon interviews Wolf in September, 2006
• CONGDON INTERVIEW AUDIO
• WikiPedia entry for Josh Wolf
• Josh Wolf blogging from prison
• Blog post by Liz Wolf-Spada with critical comments
• Nov. 9: SPJ Northern California names Wolf, others, journalists of year
• More on the SPJ honor
• SPJ contributes $30K to Wolf's legal fees; makes plea for more help
• Nov. 16 blog-story by Sarah Phelan on case status

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• Early story about Olson receiving subpoena (CHRON)

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