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Video Journalist Visits “Love in the Restaurant”

WASHINGTON, DC, 19 December 2012 — Ann Puderbaugh produced, shot and wrote this video during our 6-9 December 2012 Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. What’s extraordinary here is that this is Ann’s first time out with a camera doing this kind of work — evidence that proper instruction in the visual language can equip […]

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Video Journalist Explores “Afghan Market”

WASHINGTON, DC, 17 December 2012 — Kalpana Biswas traveled from Pittsburgh, PA, to attend our 6-9 December Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. She aspires to make films of women engaged in the filmmakers, particularly those working in conflict zones around the world. She spent her production time at an Afghan market in the area […]

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L.A.-based Video Journalist Explores DC-based “American Pupusas”

WASHINGTON, DC, 16 December 2012 — Ivan Mejia traveled from Los Angeles where he works as freelance video journalist to attend the December 2012 workshop here in Washington, DC. I first met Ivan in the late 1980s while covering the civil war in his native country of El Salvador. Ivan now works as a freelance […]

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“I’m Still Here” and the Power of the Visual Language

WASHINGTON, DC, 15 December 2012 — Steinar Figved made this video during my December 2012 Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. It is a stunningly powerful example of what a single practitioner — properly trained in visual storytelling — can achieve. Steinar did the pre-production on this piece from his home in Norway. In four […]

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Video Journalism Workshop Explores the World

WASHINGTON, DC, 7 December 2012 — Participants at our 6-9 December Video Journalism Workshop explore subjects near and far. Kalpana Biswas, seen on screen, is working on a story about an Afghan market that has become the core of an immigrant community in the region. Rhett Rebold, seated, is working on a story about a […]

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Video Journalism Workshop Launches

WASHINGTON, DC, 6 December 2012 — Bruce Jones makes images during the Video Journalism Workshop which are intensive, four-day immersions in the craft of “backpack journalism” defined as character-driven television/web productions with hand-held digital cameras by a single practitioner. The workshops cover the gamut of this storytelling craft from the genesis and shaping of story […]

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