Gustavo Martinez Contreras Archives

Grewal guidance bars police from seizing reporters’ equipment, notes

April 20, 2021 2:16 pm

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal released new guidance on interactions between police and reporters during protests Tuesday. The guidance bars police from seizing reporters’ equipment and notes but provides exceptions if it is needed for public safety or occurs...

Full apology from journalist who wrote offensive Asbury Park Press caption

April 1, 2021 5:13 pmDecember 17, 2021 9:10 am

The journalist who lost his job with the Asbury Park Press after posting an offensive caption last month has offered a full apology. Gustavo Martinez Contreras had added a caption to a photograph of an Orthodox Jewish nurse preparing to...

Monmouth County pulls legal notices from Asbury Park Press, denounces offensive caption

March 25, 2021 4:57 pmMarch 25, 2021 5:07 pm

The Asbury Park Press is about to lose a major source of revenue after a misogynistic and anti-Semitic caption caused the Monmouth County Board of Commissioners to pull their legal advertising. “We are not going to continue to give money...

Gannett selling photos online of children they photograph. Parents don’t like it

March 24, 2021 5:55 pmMarch 25, 2021 9:07 am

As newspapers look for alternative revenues sources to supplement an ailing business model, some parents are pushing back on a decision by Gannett to monetize the work of their journalists by selling photographs of children on their websites. The front...

Asbury Park Press has broken trust with readers, legislator says

March 24, 2021 7:37 amMarch 24, 2021 12:46 am

A Monmouth County lawmaker believes the Asbury Park Press needs to be more accountable for a sexist, anti-Semitic photo caption that led to the firing of one of the journalists. Assembly Human Services Committee Chair Joann Downey (D-Freehold) said she...

Asbury Park Press fires journalist who wrote sexist, anti-Semitic caption

March 23, 2021 9:50 amMarch 24, 2021 12:08 am

The Asbury Park Press appears to have fired Gustavo Martínez Contreras, the longtime photographer who used a misogynistic and offensive caption in a photo that appeared in their online edition on Sunday. “The reporter in question is no longer with...

Murphy bashes Gannett for ‘really offensive’ photo caption, suggests someone should lose their job

March 22, 2021 3:02 pmMarch 22, 2021 9:35 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy sharply criticized the Asbury Park Press and Gannett for a photo caption that included misogynistic and ethnic slurs, calling the reference to “a fucking hot nurse, a total JAP” as “completely, utterly unacceptable, really offensive – offensive...