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Backpack Journalism at University Andres Bello in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela, 25 March 2011 — Finished up a two-day backpack video journalism workshop at Catholic University Andres Bello in Caracas. Great bunch of students. (Photos by Bill Gentile.)

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Backpack Journalism With Leopoldo Castillo at Venezuela’s Globovision

CARACAS, Venezuela, 23 March 2011 — “Alo Ciudadano” is arguably the most popular program on Venezuelan television. Host Leopoldo Castillo and I discuss backpack video journalism during an interview on his show. (Photos by Tom Mittnacht.)

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Day Two Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Venezuela

MARACAIBO, Venezuela, 22 March 2010 — Just finishing up Day Two of the Backpack Video Journalism Workshop at Universidad Dr. Rafael Belloso (URBE) in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Above, two of my students video one of the guards whose responsibility it is to protect the university and its students. Above, backpack video journalists work on their video […]

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Backpack Video Journalism in Venezuela (en Espanol)

MARACAIBO, Venezuela, 22 March 2011 — I took the Backpack Journalism Workshop to Maracaibo, Venezuela, this week. Attached see some of the photos at the Universidad Dr. Rafael Belloso (URBE). (Photos by Renan Huerta.)

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New York Times Photojournalist Tyler Hicks in Afghanistan, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC, 18 March 2011 — While embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made a brief video of New York Times Photojournalist Tyler Hicks as he prepared and then transmitted images from one of the most unforgiving locales on earth to the Times photo desk in New York. […]

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American University Students at San Francisco Ocean Film Festival

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C., 9 March 2011 — A film made by two American University students with whom I traveled to the Galapagos Islands has been selected for screening at the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. Mark Petruniak and Chris McMorrow are heading to California to attend the show of “La Pesca Vivencial,” which they shot […]

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