FAS Guidelines for the Media, Filming, Photography, Recording

The following guidelines have been established to protect the privacy of all members of the Harvard community and to promote an environment conducive to learning. We appreciate your cooperation.

• Reporters, photographers, video/motion picture cameras, and media recording equipment are not permitted inside Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings, including classrooms, laboratories, dormitories, dining halls, office buildings, or other facilities.
• FAS faculty members may invite reporters, photographers or film crews into their own private offices for interviews and/or filming. Faculty members are asked to please advise media staff that photography or filming of hallways, lounges or other spaces adjacent to the faculty member's office or elsewhere in the building is not permitted. FAS faculty members may also invite reporters, photographers or film crews into private studies located within Harvard College Libraries, but should obtain a media pass, in advance, from the HCL communications office.
• Only exteriors of FAS buildings may be photographed or filmed. The University News Office must approve filming and photography of the exterior of any FAS building, in advance. To request a permission form, call 617-495-1585. This permission form must be completed in advance of shooting, and the photographers or film crew must carry the form with them during the shoot.
• Please secure the permission, in advance, of any students who will be photographed or filmed in wide shots of the Yard or elsewhere on FAS premises.
• Special events, conferences, seminars, speeches, etc. may be recorded or filmed by the Harvard sponsoring organization, for archival purposes only. Such recording may not be sold or distributed to other internal or external organizations.
• Filming of and reporting on intercollegiate athletic events is permitted, but must be arranged through the Harvard Athletics Department in accordance with their policies.
• Filming and reporting of exhibitions and special events inside FAS museums and performance spaces may be permitted at the discretion of the management of the venue, and should be arranged with the venue's media relations staff, in advance.