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Unleashing the Potential of Citizen Witnesses
With more witnesses from more regions equipped to document their communities, how can we in the human rights, media, and technology fields help realize the potential of citizen reporters?
WITNESS
April 3, 2013
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Citizen Video for Journalists: Contextualization
Citizen videos can provide as many questions as answers. Lara Setrakian of Syria Deeply discusses how to contextualize citizen reporting and avoid information overload.
WITNESS
April 1, 2013
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Women’s Video Journalism–More Than Just Reporting
WorldPulse's Citizen Journalism Program trains women to report about deeper social issues, and through reporting, to change them.
WITNESS
March 30, 2013
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Progress for Kenya through the Lens of a Camera
Having kept peace throughout the 2013 presidential elections, Kenyans look forward. Bukeni Waruzi explains the current situation, and how incorporating video can help to resolve remaining tensions.
WITNESS
March 25, 2013
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Citizen Video for Journalists: How to Build a Newsroom on Twitter, with Andy Carvin
Twitter can be a rumor mill—or a newsroom. NPR's Andy Carvin shares ideas for developing an informative and reliable online community for news gathering.
WITNESS
March 18, 2013
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All Eyes on Kenya–and Cameras, too.
As polling stations close their doors today after huge voter turnout in, everyone is wondering: will this election remain peaceful, or will it follow in the path of the turbulent 2007 election? Kenyan citizen journalists, trained by WITNESS, weigh in.
WITNESS
March 4, 2013
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Citizen Video for Journalists: Verification
Citizen video is becoming a powerful new reporting tool. But faked footage threatens to break the trust that's so critical to newsrooms and audiences. Storyful reporter Della Kilroy demystifies the verification process, sharing important lessons for reporters and human rights researchers alike.
WITNESS
February 25, 2013
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Can Cell Phones Save Kenya’s Elections?
Across the country, pockets of Kenyans are determined to use video to protect their democracy during the March 4th elections. Bukeni Waruzi just returned from training these activists and citizen journalists, and here's what he taught.
WITNESS
February 23, 2013
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Citizen Video for Journalists: A New Blog Series
Citizen video takes journalists to inaccesible corners of the world, putting viewers on the scene long before news crews. In this bi-weekly series, news innovators explore tools, strategies, and ethics of using citizen video to report the news.
WITNESS
February 11, 2013
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New Laws Threaten To Restrict Filming of Police Actions Worldwide
Social upheaval is surging through the world--protests against economic protests rock Europe, protests against politics boil in the Middle East. Governments are responding with new laws to suppress citizens' right to film police. Will they succeed?
WITNESS
February 4, 2013
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Untold Stories from the Conflict in Mali
As citizen video becomes a critical tool in monitoring international political and humanitarian crises, its absence is all the more striking. In northern Mali, limitations on digital communications means a virtual “black hole” for human rights violations.
WITNESS
January 18, 2013
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Can Video Document Possible War Crimes In Syria?
Amid a rising tide of citizen videos worldwide, there's a torrent of Syrian citizen journalism. Christoph Koettl, Emergency Response Manager at Amnesty International USA, discusses the potential--and the potential pitfalls. What power does a Syrian cell phone video have, for justice and deception?
WITNESS
January 8, 2013
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From Syria to Burma: 2012 in Citizen Human Rights Video
Only six words accompany the video. But they are just enough background needed for the one minute and seven seconds it depicts: “ROHINGYA MUSLIM VILLAGE IN ANDI VILLAGE 2.”
WITNESS
December 28, 2012
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Is it Authentic? When Citizens and Soldiers Document War
On November 1, a particular video caught not only our attention at the Human Rights Channel, but also that of international observers, news outlets, and criminal prosecutors. It’s the type of video whose images have altered the discussion of the Syrian conflict, and may also revolutionize the role of citizen video in times of war.
WITNESS
November 20, 2012
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Citizen Media + Video In Pakistan: A Conversation with Blogger Faisal Kapadia
In July I had the pleasure of attending my second Global Voices Citizen Media Summit, this time in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit is "a meeting of bloggers, activists, and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide."
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
October 23, 2012
