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Backpack Journalists Hit the Ground Running

Participants of the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile review work they produced on the first day of the four-day event.

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Essential QuickTip #1: Hold the Camera Properly

WASHINGTON, DC, 10 September 2010 — Below is the first in a series of Bill Gentile’s Essential Backpack Journalism QuickTips that you may find helpful in the field. I certainly have. Please feel free to send any feedback. Bill Gentile: #1: Hold the Camera Properly You have a left hand largely for one purpose: To […]

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When Photojournalists Become Backpack Journalists

WASHINGTON, DC, 8 September 2010 — I participated in a conversation with bloggers on Rosenblum TV recently, which you may find interesting. Below see a version of my post about the transition from photojournalism to backpack journalism: Photojournalists have difficulty making the transition to video partly because they’ve spent so much of their professional lives […]

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CEI Advances on Backpack Journalism System

WASHINGTON, DC, 6 September 2010 — Communications Engineering Inc. of Newington, Va, is pushing forward with the Bill Gentile Backpack Journalism System. I stopped by the CEI headquarters recently to discuss the System, being marketed in part with the above poster. (Photo by Phil Whitebloom) While visiting the CEI offices, I also reviewed the new […]

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NPPA Magazine Features American University’s Backpack Journalism Project

WASHINGTON, DC, 1 September 2010 — Here’s how Donald R. Winslow starts out his piece in the latest edition of “News Photographer,” the official magazine of the National Press Photographers Association and arguably the most important magazine dealing with our craft: OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS AT American University in Washington, DC, some of its […]

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Defining Backpack Journalism — Again

WASHINGTON, DC, 29 August 2010 — There still is a lot of discussion and debate about backpack journalism, what it is, what it looks like, in which instances it should be utilized, when it is appropriate and effective. So I think it time now to define this methodology again, in greater detail. Backpack journalism is […]

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