WASHINGTON, DC, 15 January 2012 — Our latest Backpack Journalism Workshop ended with this group photo (after workshop participant Larry Roberts already had headed home.) From left to right are Nick Dua, Peter Holley, Assistant Esther Gentile (seated), Assistant Nick Ray and me, Bill Gentile. Ours was a small group this time, allowing me to […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 January 2012 — Participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop head down the final stretch of the four-day event, finishing up the edits on their respective projects. These include a piece on “Occupy DC,” another on the NGO “Critical Exposures,” and another on a young man who has restructured his life through bodybuilding. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 14 January 2012 — Participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop connect via Skype with Internet marketer Bruce Jones, at his home in Boston. We’re in the third day of the three-day event. Below are some of the participants. (Photos by Bill Gentile)
WASHINGTON, DC, 14 January 2012 — Workshop Assistant Nick Ray (standing) assists Peter Holley editing his workshop project with Final Cut X. General Assignment Reporter for the Houston Chronicle, Peter is one of the first workshop participants to use the new version of Final Cut. According to Nick, backpack journalists using the new program for […]
ARLINGTON, VA, 13 January 2012 — Larry Roberts (L) takes aim at bodybuilder Sam Bridgewater in the Arlington Nutrition Corner. One of the participants in my Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, Larry is doing a piece about one man’s use of bodybuilding as a tool for physical, psychic and spiritual self-renewal. (Photo by Bill […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 12 January 2010 — Peter Holley, a participant in my Backpack Journalism Workshop, documents the arrest of a man accused of fighting with another man at the site of Occupy DC in downtown Washington. Holley is doing his project for the workshop on the Occupy movement. The workshop runs from Thursday 12 January […]