WASHINGTON, DC, 12 April 2011 — Am still a bit jet-lagged after the red-eye flight from Las Vegas to DC Sunday night but gratified by the opportunity to speak with so many practitioners and instructors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention over the weekend. Above, some of the attendees watch “Afghanistan: The Forgotten […]
Participants of the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile review work they produced on the first day of the four-day event.
WASHINGTON, 7 January 2010 — At the request of a colleague from American University, I gave a presentation today at the Inter-American Defense College at Fort McNair, in Washington, DC. I focused the presentation on media and the military, as the attendees are representatives of armed forces from Latin America and the Caribbean. (I gave […]
WASHINGTON, 9 AUGUST 2009 — JUST TWO DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER FOR THE BACKPACK JOURNALISM WORKSHOP WITH NOW ON PBS. See http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/Journalism-Workshop.html.
NEW YORK, 25 June 2009 – I took questions following my presentation on “backpack journalism” at the Harvard Club on W. 44th St. in New York City. I also screened my recent piece, “Afghanistan: The Forgotten War,” which was broadcast last year by NOW on PBS. The event was closed to the public and only […]
Backpack journalism moved further into the mainstream last week when AU graduate student David Coffey and I traveled to New York where we finalized his internship with the Associated Press in Bangkok, Thailand. During his 12-week internship, David will employ the backpack journalism model that I’ve been teaching at American University as well as at […]