October 24, 2020 Liability Claims in the COVID Era; Legal Protections for Journalists; Precautions against Defamation By Julie Angell, Steven C. Beer & Neil J. Rosini Read more
August 26, 2020 How Hidden Cameras Captured a Daring Rescue in 'Welcome to Chechnya' The most nerve-wracking sequence in David France’s Welcome to Chechnya is, without doubt, the rescue of Anya. Read more
August 18, 2020 Documenting the Undocumentable: China's Re-Education Camps During this unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic, people have had to lean more and more on the use of technology for daily interactions Read more
June 30, 2020 Digital Disguise: 'Welcome to Chechnya''s Face Veil Is a Game Changer in Identity Protection Cutting Class is a new column that focuses on a specific aspect of the post-production process—breaking down a scene editorially, and delving into Read more
June 14, 2020 A Solutions Approach to Documentary Journalism Documentaries aren’t solely about issues. “One problem filmmakers come across is, ‘Here’s an issue I care about. I’m going to talk to a bunch of Read more
June 5, 2020 Resources for Media Makers and Citizen Journalists Covering Hostile Environments During this historic time, many of you are using your cameras to witness and capture unfolding events in hostile environments. Reporting in the US on Read more
April 27, 2020 The Ethics of Documentary Production in a Pandemic As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, I was required to take a class on law and ethics (students still are). As a Read more
March 6, 2020 Shielding Sources and Outtakes from Subpoenas: A 'Reporter's Privilege' Primer for Documentary Filmmakers Subpoenas demanding that documentary filmmakers reveal confidential sources, or disclose their outtakes, notes or other unpublished work product pose Read more
February 5, 2020 The IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund: Looking Back and Looking Forward When IDA launched the Enterprise Documentary Fund at Sundance 2017, the festival coincided with the Women's March and Trump's inauguration. The Read more
November 16, 2019 Amicus Award: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Bridges Film & Journalism We most often associate the radical activism of the 1960s and 1970s with people of color, students, women and veterans organizing to make systemic Read more