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Martin Shelton


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Dr. Martin Shelton is the Principal Researcher at Freedom of the Press Foundation, conducting research on harassment of journalists and digital security education in J-schools. He also leads security editorial and the U.S. J-school digital security curriculum. As a UX researcher he previously worked with Google Chrome, and the Coral Project at the New York Times, where he learned from journalists and at-risk groups about their security concerns. In a former life, he was a disaffected academic and earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine.

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IDA’s SPECTRES is a two-part forum with documentary producers, directors, academics, and security experts that attempts to demystify digital security and its need within documentary production. This series will culminate in a best practices field guide for documentarians and a burner OS that allows makers to ingest, edit, and communicate securely.

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