News organisations have struggled to report accurately on the Israel-Gaza war due to a host of challenges. International reporters are not allowed to report from the ground. Local journalists are bein...
Sam Dubberley
Sam Dubberley is the managing director of the Digital Investigations Lab in the Technology and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW). Prior to joining HRW, Dubberley was the head of the Evidence Lab at Amnesty International where he conducted and led on a wide range of open-source research for Amnesty International. He has been a fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Colombia University.
Events IJF 2024
Many newsrooms now have a digital, forensic or visual analysis team harnessing the power of data and technology to design investigations on diverse themes with original and innovative focuses. This pa...
News cycles drenched with violence, war and civil unrest don’t just challenge reporters on scene: far from the front line, an open pipeline of graphic imagery and toxic content floods the screens of...
The work of investigative journalists and human rights researchers is vital to holding accountable perpetrators of war and conflict. This reporting work is painstaking and takes years, and must be of ...
With the rise of social media and camera phones, journalists and investigators are increasingly being exposed to traumatic online content. Events such as the Christchurch terror attack or chemical wea...
Automating verification? The role of technology in the verification process: status, activities and challenges
The session will investigate and outline how and to what extent technology (such as tools, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning) can support journalists, fact-checkers and those investigating hum...
Since August 2017 more than half a million Rohingya people have fled the destruction of their homes in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar, crossing to Bangladesh. The three panelists in this ses...
Five panelists involved in monitoring the EU referendum, the US election, and the upcoming French and German elections will talk about ambitious projects which involve monitoring social media and col...
Verification, Collaboration and Community Engagement: Amnesty International’s lessons from using Open Source Intelligence to monitor global human rights violations and train the next generation of ...
February 2016 was the hottest month on record. Two months earlier world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a climate deal just as extreme weather events were causing drought in Southern Africa....
With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...
Making secondary trauma a primary issue: understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. A growing number of journalists who regularly handle images and videos sourced from the social ...
Amateur footage: the increasing reliance on user generated content in news output
News outlets are using more and more footage filmed by eyewitnesses at breaking news events. With the proliferation of mobile phones with high quality cameras and easy access to the social web, citize...
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