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 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 31 March 2010 — The next Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile is scheduled for 12-16 May 2010, inclusive, at the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is the first time we are holding a five-day, as opposed to a four-day, workshop. The NOVAC venue is a perfect match […]
WASHINGTON, 30 March 2010 — An article in today’s New York Times says what we’ve known and have been preaching for some time now: the craft of photojournalism is contracting and it is much more difficult to make a living than it was just a few years ago. This is partly due to the fact […]
WASHINGTON, 23 March 2010 — The 11-14 March 2010 Backpack Journalism Workshop at NBC News is over and I’ve just about recuperated from the event. Great group of people. From left to right, Amna Nawaz (standing), Maria Howell (crouched), Will Cummings, Ted Roach, Lea Sutton, Bill Gentile (holding sign), Ben Crace (with cap), Kyle Bissell, […]
WASHINGTON, 12 March 2010 — Yesterday was the first of four very long days of the Backpack Journalism Workshop With American University at NBC News in Washington, DC. (Photo by Bill Delano)