WASHINGTON, DC, 16 December 2012 — Ivan Mejia traveled from Los Angeles where he works as freelance video journalist to attend the December 2012 workshop here in Washington, DC. I first met Ivan in the late 1980s while covering the civil war in his native country of El Salvador. Ivan now works as a freelance […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 December 2012 — Steinar Figved made this video during my December 2012 Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. It is a stunningly powerful example of what a single practitioner — properly trained in visual storytelling — can achieve. Steinar did the pre-production on this piece from his home in Norway. In four […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 9 December 2012 — The December 2012 Video Journalism Workshop drew to a close with the screening of participants’ work performed over the four-day event. We saw some terrific work done by some participants who had come to the workshop with minimal or no experience at all in the craft. They went away […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 December 2012 — Here are a few images from Day 2 of our four-day event. Above, Karen Smith-Hupp shoots part of her story on a veteran couple who are honoring service members around the world at a war memorial in the capital. (Photo by Bruce Jones.) Above, Karen interviews the couple. (Photo […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 10 December 2012 — I gave a presentation on coverage of military affairs at the Inter-American Defense College at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. In attendance were representatives of military and police units from across the hemisphere. I spoke specifically about how technology has changed the way we cover military and police activities. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 December 2012 — Participants at our 6-9 December Video Journalism Workshop explore subjects near and far. Kalpana Biswas, seen on screen, is working on a story about an Afghan market that has become the core of an immigrant community in the region. Rhett Rebold, seated, is working on a story about a […]