- Blog Action Day: The Power of We at WITNESS We're an organization based on the concept of partnership. In fact, last Thursday we held our annual gala fundraiser in New York City and its theme was "Co-Lab: Celebrating 20 Years of Collaborative Activism."
- Transforming Human Rights Reporting: Merging Mainstream News and Citizen Content Human rights issues were never easily portrayed or understood in conventional news paradigms. Few news agencies can allocate sufficient resources to effectively depict these ongoing complex issues. Even with substantial budgets and protection, journalists often face life-threatening risks while reporting these stories.
- Highlights from the Orphan Film Symposium: Part 2 Following on my post Tuesday, here are more highlights from the Orphan Film Symposium I attended last week:
- Two new posts about video advocacy Two of my fine colleagues have been interviewed on other blogs recently about WITNESS’ model of video advocacy. The first is an interview withProgram Director, Sam Gregory, conducted by Henry Jenkins the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program on his personal blog after meeting Sam at the recent DIY Video Summit hosted at […]
- Collaborative editing tools and cool collages A quick note here on some online tools I’ve recently come across: Kaltura – a collaborative video making tool that another colleague brought to our attention (thanks Sam). I realize this is not new to bloggers and videophiles in the know – but its relatively new to us here and we’re considering ways to use […]
- Kenya in crisis: a search for citizen cameras… The crisis in Kenya may ultimately stem from a democratic failure, corruption and tribalism, or poverty and inequality, but either way, evidence of brutal violence continues to emerge, both in terms of killings and of violence against women and girls, and there’s news of an impending health crisis. For a quick tour d’horizon, including ways […]
- Human Rights at Debatepedia Debatepedia (developed by the International Debate Education Association) is looking to become the Wikipedia for debate… There’s an overarching human rights category, as well as sections on business, conflict and security, economics, the environment, and law. [via Andrew Nachison at iFocos]
- International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (via H-Net) Received this morning via H-Net listserv: Title: International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present Description: Call for Essay Contributions — […] This eight-volume, 5,000-page, peer-reviewed work, to be published by Blackwell next year is intended to become the definitive reference work on the role of popular agency in transforming the world … Contact: jcohn@pnc.edu http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=159819 […]
- NewAssignment.net’s 6 lessons Another nugget via Andy Carvin – I’d welcome comments on how this might look different when applied to the Hub: Jay Rosen of NewAssignment.net is talking about some of the lessons learned from their first networked journalism experiment with Wired News, which focused on trends in crowdsourcing. He said there were six lessons, but he […]
- Like-minded folks Afew weeks back, Gareth Benest of One World TV visited our digs here in Brooklyn. We spent sometime discussing our plans which to any sane person would sound like we were pretty much developing the exact same project and talking to all the same people. It really didn’t come as a complete surprise to either […]
