WASHINGTON, DC, 16 October 2010 — Participants in the Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, begin editing, a balancing act involving technical skill and aesthetic sensibility. Pictured are Theresa Bucci (center), Joan Madrid and Skye Wheeler. (Photo by Esther Gentile) Below, Brent Solomon (l) works on his story about environmental sustainability as Simon Nicholson, a […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 October 2010 — Rebecca Byerly, a participant in the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop, interviews her subject for a mini documentary on a busy street in the nation’s capital. She’s practicing what I refer to a “participatory observation.” That means the art of engaging subjects in a manner that allows them to tell […]
Participants of the latest Backpack Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile review work they produced on the first day of the four-day event.
READING, PA, 12 October 2010 — At the invitation of Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Albright College, I attended a screening of the documentary, “The World Stopped Watching” to a group of students and faculty. During the Q&A following the film, we discussed how backpack journalism is changing the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 October 2010 – I was pleased but not surprised. Not even when she dropped me e-mail messages or phoned from places like Kabul or Kashmir. I became accustomed to it. To her success, that is. I knew Rebecca Byerly would be successful the first time I met her. She came to my […]
WASHINGTON, 3 October 2010 — It’s not every day that a university professor sees his student’s work in The New York Times. But that’s exactly what happened recently when I ran across a piece by Shaheryar Mirza, a former student in my Foreign Correspondence class. Shaheryar was kind enough to answer a number of my […]