Ethics and Forensics in the Age of Photoshop Photojournalism
April 5, 2011 - MIT Bartos Theater - Seminar, Knight Science Journalism at MIT
There is new technology that can detect them, and even identify the camera that took them---
like a ballistics test. Santiago Lyon and Hany Farid on the history of faked photos and what news organizations can do about them.
Speakers:
Santiago Lyon, director of photography for the Associated Press.
Santiago Lyon is responsible for the AP’s global photo report and the hundreds of photographers and photo editors worldwide who produce it. He has 26 years’ experience in
news service photography and has won multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the globe.
Hany Farid, mathematician and digital forensics specialist at Dartmouth University.
Hany Farid received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two-year post-doctoral position in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth in 1999. From digital forensics to the digital reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with digital media at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology.
Jointly sponsored by:
Knight Science Journalism at MIT
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
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Knight Science Journalism at MIT
