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Backpack Journalism Workshop Connects With Internet Marketer

WASHINGTON, DC, 14 January 2012 — Participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop connect via Skype with Internet marketer Bruce Jones, at his home in Boston. We’re in the third day of the three-day event. Below are some of the participants. (Photos by Bill Gentile)

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Backpack Journalist Takes Aim at Bodybuilding and Self-Renewal

ARLINGTON, VA, 13 January 2012 — Larry Roberts (L) takes aim at bodybuilder Sam Bridgewater in the Arlington Nutrition Corner. One of the participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, Larry is doing a piece about one man’s use of bodybuilding as a tool for physical, psychic and spiritual self-renewal. (Photo by Bill […]

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Backpack Documentary Workshop in Havana, Cuba, Draws to End

HAVANA, Cuba, 15 December 2011 — Participants in the Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Advanced Institute of Art pose for a group photo at a dinner reception following our four-day event. The workshop was an extraordinary success, the last stage of which is a visit to American University by the winning team of Cuban students, […]

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AU Abroad Semester in Cuba Ends

HAVANA, Cuba, 15 December 2011 — Our hosts at Casa de las Americas, Cuba’s premier cultural center, held a going-away party for American University students, professors and friends at the end of our fall semester in Cuba. This was the first time that AU Abroad held a semester at Casa. And it was the first […]

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2nd Day of Backpack Documentary Workshop in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, 13 December 2011 — We’re in the second day, Production, of a Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Advanced Institute of Art, known by its Spanish acronym, ISA. The four-day workshop has been made possible by a grant from the Reynolds Foundation. The grant application was submitted by Eric Hershberg, director of American University’s […]

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AU Abroad Students Visit Cuba’s Premier Foreign Relations Institute

HAVANA, Cuba, 21 November 2011 — AU Abroad students and their Cuban contemporaries pose for a group picture during our recent visit to the Advanced Institute of International Relations in Havana. The Institute, known here as the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) is Cuba’s premier institution for the study of foreign relations between Cuba […]

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