WASHINGTON, DC, 4 February 2011 — I just ran across this story about the Miami Herald’s production of its first documentary, about the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti: (Click here.) Just one more measure of how the media landscape is shifting beneath our feet. — Bill Gentile
WASHINGTON, 22 January 2011 — Maria Howell (R) is on a roll. Last summer she was the winner of the Associated Press/American University Backpack Journalism Foreign Internship that took her to the AP bureau in Jerusalem. Last fall she took on a backpack journalism internship at WashingtonPost.com. And this week she begins a backpack video […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 18 January 2011 — I’m finally catching up to posting material generated during our December Backpack Journalism Workshop at Maryland Public Television. That’s Andrea Boston in the center, with Esther Gentile looking over her shoulder and Don Sladkin on the left. I’m on the right giving instruction. (Photos by Kelly Donnellan, Esther Gentile […]
OWINGS MILLS, MD, 12 December 2010 — Participants, instructor and assistants take a break from a hectic schedule on the last day of the Backpack Journalism Workshop at Maryland Public Television (MPT). I’ll be posting many more photos, as well as videos generated during the event, at the earliest opportunity. From left: Anne Sieling, Andrea […]
LITCHFIELD BEACH, South Carolina, 26 November 2010 — Especially because we usually work alone, backpack journalists have to pay attention to every detail. There’s nobody around to run through a checklist with us. So every time you pull the camera out of the bag, clean the lens. I know it sounds silly, but we get […]
LITCHFIELD BEACH, South Carolina, 24 November 2010 — You see it all the time. Lovely women wearing ugly lav microphones sticking out of their neck as if it were some malignant growth. Hide the thing! Go to a pharmacy and get some Moleskin tape, which you normally would apply to your heel when wearing new […]