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, 12 September 2009 – Following is a message I sent to a colleague in response to his query about the future of backpack journalism. I think my response may be instructive especially for practitioners of the craft, like former student and colleague Glenn Luther, seen above. I’ve divided my message into Parts I and […]
WASHINGTON, 12 September 2009 — It was the late 1990s and Christian Poveda (left) and I were both on assignment in Central America for Newsweek magazine. We were shipping rolls of film to Newsweek headquarters in New York and I watched Christian use gaffer’s tape to bind a dozen or so rolls together. The idea […]
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 the entire left side. Also, this […]
NOW on PBS has nominated “Afghanistan: The Forgotten War,” and “Nurses Needed” for national Emmy Awards. I produced both of these stories in 2008. The Afghanistan piece, in particular, is a prime example of how the “backpack journalism” model is revolutionizing the field of visual communication on television and on the Internet. Few media outlets […]
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