WASHINGTON, 17 April 2010 — Former American University graduate student David Coffey posted this story about sex workers in Thailand on the video journalism site, VJMovement. A graduate of American University’s School of Communication (SOC), Coffey last year received the first Backpack Journalism Foreign Internship given by the SOC and the Associated Press (AP). He […]
WASHINGTON, 13 April 2010 — Maria Howell’s film on our latest Backpack Journalism Workshop is now posted on Vimeo. It’s a great story about our last event, which we held in conjunction with American University, at the NBC News Bureau here in Washington, DC. Prior to making this piece, Maria had substantial experience with photojournalism, […]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, 11 April 2010 — Bill Gentile delivers an address on backpack journalism to a crowded auditorium at the HardRock Hotel during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. Gentile was sponsored by Sony Corporation to address the annual gathering, the largest and arguably the most important in the world. […]
WASHINGTON, 9 April 2010 — We’re sending out the new flyer on Backpack Journalism Workshops in New Orleans and Boston. Accepting registrations. Visit www.billgentile.com/workshops.html
WASHINGTON, 1 April 2010 — American University’s School of Communication has launched The Backpack Journalism Project. See http://www.american.edu/soc/backpack
WASHINGTON, 1 April 2010 — American University’s School of Communication today launches The Backpack Journalism Project, a major endeavor to define, to teach and to promote the methodology of a single, properly trained professional using a hand-held digital camera to achieve a more immediate, more intimate visual communication than possible with a large camera and […]