PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 6 May 2014 Participants in my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop watch Chain Gang as a tool for learning how to use characters to drive home my lesson on building visual stories. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews with local journalists, students and others. The central theme of the […]
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 6 May 2014 After breakfast with U.S. Ambassador to Suriname Jay Anania and a handful of local journalists. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews with local journalists, students and others. The central theme of the visit is the power of filmmaking with hand-held digital cameras and distribution over […]
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 4 May 2014 The walk on the tarmac from my plane to the airport terminal brought me back to the tropics. The smell of wood fires for cooking. The deep humidity. A cool evening breeze. The sunset. Smelled like Nicaragua. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews about the […]
PORT O SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 May 2014 On my way to Suriname for a week of workshops, presentations and teaching. Catching a connection here from Miami. The last time I was in Trinidad and Tobago, I still was with Newsweek Magazine and was covering an insurrection that had devastated the downtown area […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 April 2014 — McClatchy Newspapers foreign correspondent Hannah Allam addresses my Foreign Correspondence class. Allam is the foreign affairs correspondent for McClatchy, covering the State Department and international diplomacy from Washington. She was bureau chief in Baghdad from 2003-2006 and was Middle East bureau chief, based in Cairo, from 2006-20012. Her war […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 April 2014 — My wife, Esther, and I are pleased to announce that our documentary, “Through Their Eyes,” has been nominated to compete in the Documentary Feature category at the Toronto International Film and Video Awards festival. The documentary follows a diverse group of six American University students discovering the forbidden island […]