Guest blog: Brian Fitzgerald - Greenpeace International

Brian Fitzgerald is Communications Manager for Greenpeace International - below he shares his reflections on the power of video to prod power and mobilise action. Naturally, his views do not represent the views of WITNESS (but we think they’re pretty interesting).
I remember the first time I saw video of whales being hunted. It [...]

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 the [...]

Making Our Media Matter

A few weeks ago I attended the Making Your Media Matter conference put on by the stupendous folks at the Center for Social Media at American University. A report is now available produced by the conference rapporteur here which is a useful round up of major themes and ideas discussed, broken down into the various [...]

Kenya, Cambodia and Australia at the Hub - NOW!

Head on over to the Hub (once you’ve read these great posts from Matisse and Sam, of course) for this week’s Picks… and see the end of this post for further links and info.
As well as images of continuing violence from the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, shot by our Kenyan partners Cemiride, we’ve also [...]

DIY video and human rights

I’ve just arrived back in New York after three thought-provoking days at the 24/7, DIY Video Summit, a great event put together by Mimi Ito and a team of organizers and curators at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC. The panels and discussions streamed live in Second Life and were webcast, and they should [...]