Managing media access and photography
I was talking about photography policies and hospital security last week in the blog, and a related concern is media actions during a big news story.
Unfortunately, due to immediate media saturation of almost any event, it is frequently (and to my mind, rightly so) a primary concern of organizations to develop an approach/policy for the management of photography, not only within the walls of the hospital, but also on the grounds of the hospital.
My experience has been that hospitals need to maintain a very strict line on the media, as any precedent-setting "permission" to the media (even for pleasant circumstances) can make it that much more challenging when the media breaches the hospital as they pursue a story that might be considerably less flattering to the hospital.
Thus, it is important to determine ahead of time how much access can be granted, regardless of the situation, and how that access would be managed (preferably in the form of some sort of neutral ground, but that's not always possible).
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