iWitness FRONTLINE/World Web Channel

Project Director: Joe Rubin

With "iWitness," Frontline/World hopes to bring a greater number of unheard voices from around the world to the web & other platforms. More in tune with the Facebook/YouTube generation, “iWitness will encourage voices from beyond the mainstream, through video dispatches, web cam and phone interviews.” This project, currently in development, brings content like experimental web chat with Pakistani students, and raw eyewitness activist footage from Burma during the violent crackdown on protesters by the ruling military junta to Frontline/World programming. At the Institute, the team will work on new media marketing and fundraising strategies, prototype the web design and template to integrate with the Frontline/World site, and develop best practices for utilizing interactive web video.