WASHINGTON, DC, 12 March 2012 — You now can watch Jenna Bonello’s video story, “Food Truck Frenzy,” on YouTube. Jenna produced the story during our March 8-11 Backpack Journalism Workshop. These workshops are intensive, four-day immersions in the craft of “backpack journalism” defined as character-driven television/web productions with hand-held digital cameras by a single practitioner. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 9 March 2012 — Jenna Bonello, (L) documents the work of food truck performers, the “fojol brothers,” while working on her assignment during our Backpack Journalism Workshop. (Photo by Bill Gentile)
WASHINGTON, 10 March 2012 — The Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, began on Thursday with a showing of “Chain Gang” as an example of what this methodology can achieve. We have a terrific group of students. Most have never shot video before, but bring an innate sense of the medium to the event. (Photo […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 March 2012 — Time Magazine published one of the stories that my wife, Esther, and I produced on the island during my semester there last year with a group of AU Abroad students. I taught my Photojournalism and Social Documentary course, which is the theoretical and practical basis of Backpack Journalism. See […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 28 January 2012 — Here are a few preview shots of a story that we’ve been working on about a Cuban “Cigar Reader” at the La Corona cigar factory in Havana. The cigar readers are the men and women who read out loud to cigar rollers in factories across the island. “The Cigar […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 21 January 2012 — Nick Dua produced this video of Critical Exposure during our recent Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. Critical Exposure is a non-profit organization that teaches youth to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change. You can see […]