- Ethical Wednesdays: Additional Resources on Ethics and Eyewitness Footage We wrap our blog series on the ethics of using eyewitness footage with a list of recommended resources from a diverse range of disciplines.
- Ethical Wednesdays: Graphic Footage When footage contains distressing and traumatic imagery, how can you share it with your audience effectively, responsibly, and ethically?
- Ethical Wednesdays: When Eyewitness Footage Cannot be Verified One of the greatest risks of using eyewitness videos in reporting is not understanding the full story behind the footage. Is it authentic? Has it been manipulated or misinterpreted? What happened before and after? In many cases, we lack complete information about the video’s content and context. How can we balance competing needs to verify footage and expose potential abuse?
- Ethical Wednesdays: Protecting At-Risk Eyewitnesses Documenting protests, human rights abuses, or breaking news can put eyewitnesses at risk. How can reporters, activists, and human rights monitors use eyewitness footage without endangering the people who created them.
- Ethical Wednesdays: Who’s Behind That Footage? Credit, Transparency, and Eyewitness Videos Eyewitnesses who film or circulate human rights videos may have a personal, professional, or political motivation. The latest in our series on the ethics of using eyewitness videos explores the reasons and methods of crediting the people behind the footage.
- Ethical Wednesdays: When Media is Created by the Perpetrators of the Abuse Is there an ethical way to use footage documenting abuse when it is filmed by perpetrators themselves?
- Ethical Wednesdays: Archives and Our Ethical Guidelines for Using Eyewitness Videos As archives start to collect, provide access to, and present social media collections, many ethical issues arise that need to be addressed.
- Ethical Wednesdays: Minimizing Risks to those Filmed The first of our weekly blog series focusing on the ethics of using eyewitness videos in human rights reporting and advocacy.
- “Emergency Exits” Podcast: Every journey counts and enriches us This blogpost was writen by Pía Rio Blanco from La Sandía Digital and Indira Cornelio from WITNESS. You can learn more about the Emergency Exits project on this website “We decided not to focus on the pain, on the victimization of the people. They speak all about their dreams, courage, strength and the joy of […]
- Last Month In Video: 2017, a year of extremes Video had a big role to play in 2017. From YouTube takedowns to fake news, police bodycams to a historic ICC arrest warrant, here's our last year in video review.
- Curating citizen media for human rights? Review these critical questions before designing a platform for curating eyewitness footage of human rights abuses.
- Why YouTube’s Blurring Tool Matters and Why Other Platforms Should Have One Too We discuss why visual anonymity is important for protecting activists using video for change & look at YouTube's newly improved blurring functionality.
