This special evening celebrates twenty years of WITNESS and our mission: See it. Film It. Change it.

A panel of activists, journalists, academics, and citizens will discuss some very crucial questions concerning citizen journalism: With every person now a potential witness, how are human rights abuses being reported and contextualized? Does more content create more and faster change? Our experts will also examine how human rights stories have been covered over the last twenty years and consider how they will evolve in the future. Founded in the wake of the Rodney King beating caught on tape, WITNESS was employing video long before six billion people held video-enabled cellphones in their pockets.

When: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 6:30 pm ET

Where: The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019

IN PERSON
Tim Pool, Journalist
Lauren Wolfe, Director, Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege Project
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Host/Producer, HuffPost Live
Priscila Neri, Program Manager, WITNESS

Moderator: Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS

This event is free to the public but you must RSVP.

***This event is generously sponsored by The Loreen Arbus Foundation***