Witness In The News

Mobile Media Toolkit Shares Our Interview with Bambuser on Their Blog

December 19, 2011 - Mobile Media Toolkit's Blog

We interviewed Hans Erikkson of Bambuser, the mobile app that allows users to livestream video from their phones, about it's use by human rights activists.
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David Bollier Spotlights A Promising Idea to Save Our Atmosphere

December 16, 2011 - David Bollier's Blog

The Founder of Commons Strategy Group covers our work with the iMatter Campaign to support an innovation legal action in his article "Atmospheric Trust Litigation vs. The Obama Administration."
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Yvette Alberdingk Thijm Writes on Tech Companies as the New Human Rights Players

December 10, 2011 - Huffington Post

In honor of Human Rights Day, Yvette calls on technology companies to work with non-governmental organizations to make digital platforms safer and more effective spaces for human rights activists.
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Grist Features the iMatter Campaign

December 8, 2011 - Grist

The environment rights blog Grist covers the our partner's campaign in "The Young and the Restless: Kids Sue Government Over Climate Change."
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Board Member Joi Ito Writes About Innovation in The New York Times

December 6, 2011 - The New York Times

Joi Ito writes about the importance of the Internet, an open-source society and innovation in this essay in the Science section of the newspaper.
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A Personal Account of Sharing Resources at Occupy Wall Street

December 3, 2011 - Cowbird

Chris Michael, our Training Manager, shares a personal account of sharing some WITNESS resources at the New York City outpost of Occupy Wall Street on a new storytelling site, Cowbird.
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WITNESS Board Member, Joi Ito, Is Named As One Of The Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers

December 1, 2011 - Foreign Policy (FP)

From "Twitter revolutions" to WikiLeaks, 2011 was a year of profound transformation in how people both consume and produce news. So it is perhaps only fitting that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's pioneering media studies program hired two of the thinkers best poised to navigate the new media landscape -- because they helped create it.
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Huffington Post Features Our Top 10 Tips for Filming Protests

November 22, 2011 - Huffington Post

Our top 10 tips for filming protests, police conduct and arrests in the HuffingtonPost. Useful for activists around the world.
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TERRA Features iMatter/WITNESS "Trust" Series on Youth Vs. Global Warming

November 21, 2011 - TERRA: The Nature of Our World, Episode 616

The online series TERRA features the first two videos in the "Trust" series, produced by our partners at the iMatter campaign. The program features the stories of two young climate change activists who are calling on the U.S. government to protect the earth's atmosphere for this and future generations.
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Buzzfeed features our Top 10 Tips for Filming Occupy Wall Street

November 18, 2011 - Buzzfeed

The folks over at BuzzFeed liked our Top 10 Tips for Filming Protests, Arrests & Police Conduct (originally shared by Chris Michael) so much that they designed their own version of the tips for their blog.
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