Among many other topics, the conference will feature a panel addressing the issue of authenticating and verifying citizen video: “Combating the Digital Fake.”  This session will explore how existing approaches to fact-checking and authentication as well as legal concerns around evidence and chain-of-custody can be are being incorporated —from a technology, practices and standards point-of-view—into the process of creating, collecting, and distributing digital media, especially video.

ISP fellows are encouraged to attend.

About Carol Rosenberg
Carol Rosenberg has been a staff writer with The Miami Herald for the past 20 years. She was hired as the Middle East correspondent on the eve of the first Gulf War – Her first staff byline was from Baghdad, Sept. 1, 1990 — and spent four years there for The Herald covering terror, conflicts and culture as part of a seven-year stint in the region, time that set the stage for her now nearly 10-year stint focusing on Guantanamo. The Herald dispatched her to the Guantanamo Navy base in January 2002, on the eve of the arrival of the first 20 captives, in what evolved into an unrivaled commitment to cover the offshore experiment in detention in “The War on Terror,” the place, the policy and the legal proceedings down there. When the Pentagon isn’t putting her up in Tent City at Guantanamo’s “Camp Justice,” she lives in Miami Beach and shuttles to the Navy Base in southeast Cuba under military escort via Washington DC, on average once a month, and made her last trip to the Middle East for the 2006 Hezbollah war. Her dispatches can be found at www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo and, when court is in session and the Pentagon controlled web access is working, she tweets live from Guantanamo at twitter.com/Guantanamo.

About Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is a Senior Research Scholar in Law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and currently writes a biweekly column on law. Ms. Greenhouse is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal. She is a member of the Council of the American Philosophical Society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. She is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and of the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School (1978), which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship.

Award-winning investigative reporter and author Bob Woodward of The Washington Post will be joined by Lucy Dalglish ’88 MSL, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Colleen Murphy, executive director of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission; and Michael Regan, editor of CTMirror.org and a former editor at The Hartford Courant. Aaron Bayer, a partner at the law firm Wiggin and Dana, will moderate the discussion, which is sponsored by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, the Knight Law and Media Program, and the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government.

Video available here