Participants of the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile review work they produced on the first day of the four-day event.
Participants of the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile review work they produced on the first day of the four-day event.
READING, PA, 12 October 2010 — At the invitation of Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Albright College, I attended a screening of the documentary, “The World Stopped Watching” to a group of students and faculty. During the Q&A following the film, we discussed how backpack journalism is changing the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 October 2010 – I was pleased but not surprised. Not even when she dropped me e-mail messages or phoned from places like Kabul or Kashmir. I became accustomed to it. To her success, that is. I knew Rebecca Byerly would be successful the first time I met her. She came to my […]
WASHINGTON, 3 October 2010 — It’s not every day that a university professor sees his student’s work in The New York Times. But that’s exactly what happened recently when I ran across a piece by Shaheryar Mirza, a former student in my Foreign Correspondence class. Shaheryar was kind enough to answer a number of my […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 30 September 2010 — Learn to document your story as it moves from one scene to another. Always shoot the journey, be it by foot, car, plane or train. Shoot your character’s feet hitting the pavement, hands on the steering wheel, face in the rear view mirror. Shoot through the windshield for the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 27 September 2010 — Get accustomed to using the eyepiece instead of the display screen. You’ll be better able to tell when your subject is in focus, especially when there’s a backlight, which is a big issue with many of these hand-held cameras. Keep both eyes open. Otherwise you lose peripheral vision on […]