​​   Coverage includes:

• ​The Appeal, "How deep is the scandal at Maryland’s medical examiner office?"  9 September 2024.
  
• BBC World Services, "Why rival football fans can see the same game differently"  5 June 2024.  
  
• The New York Times, "Failed autopsies, false arrests: a risk of bias in death examinations" 20 June 2022. ​
  
• Science magazine, "The Bias Hunter: Itiel Dror is determined to reveal the role of bias in forensics, even if it sparks outrage" 13 May 2022 (pp. 686-690). doi: 10.1126/science.adc9480 
  
• ​The Atlantic, “Can Forensic Science Be Trusted?” 12 May 2022. 
  
• Psychology Today,  “Could stereotypes put an innocent woman on death row?” 7 February  2022. 
  
• Discover Magazine, "Reforming forensics: Why academics are challenging the science behind U.S. criminal justice" Nov/Dec 2021. 
  
• ​The Washington Post, "Thousands of missed police killings prove we must address systemic bias in forensic science" 15 October 2021. 
  
• Science, "The sniff test: Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence- critics say the science is lacking" 14 October 2021. 
  
• The Washington Post, "Maryland AG names panel to decide next steps in review of ex-chief medical examiner’s work" 9 September 2021.
  
• ​The Guardian, "Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows" 1 June 2021. 
  
• BBC, "Derek Chauvin trial: What we learnt and key questions answered" 19 April 2021.
  
• The New York Times, "With George Floyd, a Raging Debate Over Bias in the Science of Death" 14 April 2021. 
  
• The Washington Post, "Study finds cognitive bias in how medical examiners evaluate child deaths" 20 February 2021. 
  
• Slate, "False Conviction: How fingerprint and firearm experts use misleading math to appear infallible" 17 December 2020. 
  
• Helsingin Sanomat (the biggest newspaper in Finland): "The threat of human error" 4 November 2019, and "Relying on interpretation" 3 November 2019. 
  
• The Washington Post, a six part series: "How do we improve forensics?" 26 August 2019, "How much interaction should we allow between forensics analysts and law enforcement?" 7 August 2019, "Is an adversarial justice system compatible with good science?" 7 August 2019, "How do we reconcile law and science?" 6 August 2019, "How much should juries rely on expert testimony?" 16 July 2019, and "We need to fix forensics. But how?" 20 June 2019.
  
• Eyewitness News, ABC, Channel 5 KSTP. 11 July 2019.  
• Science, "This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit" 13 June 2019. 
  
• The Guardian, "DNA in the dock" 2 October 2017. 
  
• The London Times, "The future of learning" 12 September  2017. 
  
• Taiwanese media, Daily News and Police News Special Report, "British cognitive neuroscientist came to Taiwan to give training on investigation decision making" 7 & 8 September 2017. 
  
• ​Deutschlandfunk, "Science in the focal point" 6 August 2017. 
  
• The Irish Times, "Investigators now able to link DNA to suspect in 20% of crimes" 6 May 2017.
  
• BBC World Service, "Are fingerprints the best form of ID? " 28 April (United Kingdom), 29 April (Africa & Middle East), 30 April (Europe, Australia & Asia), 1 May (Americas & Caribbean), 2017. 
  
• U.S. News & World Report, "Can training really stop police bias?" 29 December 2016. 
  
• Deutsche Welle (DW), "Fingerprint forensics has a future despite new technology and the folly of humans" 1 September 2016.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Legal question: How do you cross-examine a computer?" 29 August 2016.
  
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Complex DNA is still a developing technology, experts say" 28 August 2016.
  
• The London Times, "Woman wrongly tried over thumbprint" 22 August 2016.
  
• Daily News New York, "Robbery defendant seen chased by machete-wielding store clerk in video says it’s not him" 11 July 2016.
  
• New Scientist, "How faulty crime-scene forensics can make you a murderer: Physical evidence cannot be wrong, but the human interpretation of that evidence can be very wrong indeed" 18 June 2016. 
  
• The Atlantic, "The False Promise of DNA Testing" June 2016. 
  
• ​Science, "When DNA is lying" 11 March 2016, Science, 351 (6278), 1133-1136.
  
• ​Science, "Forensics gone wrong: When DNA snares the innocent" 7 March 2016.
  
• Al Jazeera America’s news magazine show, Ali Velshi 'On Target' 5 February 2016.
  
• The Irish Times, "Forensic evidence can be open to the same subjectivity that affects other types of evidence" 4 December 2015.
  
• Nature, "Science in court: Courage of conviction" 15 October 2015, Nature, 526, 463-465.   
  
• Brief to the Houses of Parliament, October 2015.
  
• Israeli national newspaper Ha'aretz, "New Research: Forensic Evidence is Often Biased Because the Identify of the Suspects" 15 September 2015.
  
• San Francisco Chronicle, "Examiners to be trained to be 'as least biased as possible' " 12 September 2015.
  
• San Francisco TV News, Channel 4, "San Francisco forensic investigators to undergo cognitive bias training" 5 September 2015.
  
• Scientific American, "Can We Trust Crime Forensics?" 18 August 2015.
  
• The Times, "Midlife dementia: Are you losing your mind or just your keys?" 15 August 2015.
  
• Science, "Forensic labs explore blind testing to prevent errors" 31 July 2015, Science, 349 (6247), 462-463.
  
• Bloomberg, "How Facebook and Campbell soup are trying to read your mind" 2 July 2015.  
  
• ​Forbes, "Food For Thought" 27 June 2015.
  
• BBC, "The Fundamental Flaw in Forensic Science" 13 May 2015. 
  
• BBC 4, "Forensics in Crisis" 4 April 2015.  
  
• The Dominion Post, New Zealand, "How Effective Are Expert Witnesses?" 18 December 2012. 
  
• The Guardian/The Observer, "DNA Analysis is Far From an Open-and-Shut Case: Forensic Evidence is Widely Considered to be the Result of Purely Objective Lab Tests, But There's Growing Proof That Psychological Bias Plays a Part" 14 October 2012.
  
• The Washington Post, "Forensic Techniques Are Subject to Human Bias, Lack Standards, Panel Found," 18 April 2012. 
  
• PBS 'Frontline' TV (USA), "The Real CSI" 17 April 2012, and "Can Unconscious Bias Undermine Fingerprint Analysis?" 16 April 2012.
  
• BBC 4, "The Life Scientific" 27 March 2012. 
  
• New Scientist, "Forensic Science Special Report: Miscarriages of Justice will Occur" 11  February 2012.  
  
• The Economist, "Ignorance is Bliss" 21 January 2012.  
  
• New Scientist, "Miscarriage of Justice Points to Fingerprint Flaws" 20 December 2011. 
  
• BBC 4 documentary, "Fingerprints on Trial" 10 March 2011.
  
• The Telegraph, "Fingerprint Identification Evidence Questioned by Senior Judge" 19 November 2010.   
  
• All in the Mind, BBC 4, "The Psychology of Forensic Fingerprinting" 16 & 17 November 2010.
  
• Daily Mail, "DNA Fingerprinting Techniques Can Sometimes Give the Wrong Results" 12 August 2010.
  
• New Scientist, "Fallible DNA Evidence" 11 August 2010.
  
• Nature, "Science in Court: The Fine Print" 18 March 2010 (pages 344-346, Vol. 464).
  
• New Scientist, "Fingerprint Evidence to Harden Up at Last" 17 March 2010.
  
• The Washington Post, Associated Press, The Capital, Washington Examiner, The Herald-Mail, and other newspapers, "Reject expanding evidence for death penalty cases", "More evidence may be allowed in death penalty cases", etc., 10-12 March 2010.
  
• The New Yorker, "Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?" 7 September 2009.
  
• The New York Times, "Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics" 12 May 2009.
  
• The New York Post, "A New Report Forces Police And Judges To Rethink Forensic Science" 7 March 2009.
  
• Laptop Magazine, "Technology And Cognition" 25 November 2008.
  
• Computing Magazine, "Are We Learning From IT?" 28 October 2008.
  
• The New York Times, "Bad Science in the Court" 14 August 2008.
  
• The London Times, "Forensic bias" 10 June 2008.
  
• See also BBC’s Newsnight interview with Dr. Dror on expert decision making of forensic examiners.
  
• and PBS 'Frontline' TV (USA) Can Unconscious Bias Undermine Forensic Analysis?. 
  

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The importance of CCI-HQ's work has been recognized in the prominent media, including television, radio, newspapers and magazines in the UK, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Poland, New Zealand, and Australia (as well as in our events and scientific publications).

Dr Itiel Dror regularly contributes to major media outlets and is committed to effective science communication and public engagement. The media coverage includes some of his work on improving decision making, minimizing bias, enhancing training, and improving human performance. These are applied to learning, banking, forensic science, policing, healthcare, aviation, and other expert domains.