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Giving Journalists Tools to Tell Good Stories

Through a partnership with NOW on PBS, award-winning journalist and producer Bill Gentile has been teaching journalists how to do more with less. Through his backpack journalism workshops, Gentile teaches effective storytelling.

The video of the training is now available online through PBS at: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/Journalism-Workshop.html

Gentile is a 30-year veteran correspondent and a professor of journalism at American University in Washington, D.C.

 

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Genevieve Belmaker

Genevieve Belmaker is a freelance journalist and contributing editor with The Epoch Times (www.theepochtimes.com). She also contributes to Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists and Poynter.org. Her blog on journalism is http://artofreportage.com.

Genevieve has traveled throughout the U.S., Asia, Central America, Israel and the West Bank for reporting assignments, including major investigative reports on the recovery of New Orleans, the encroaching presence of China in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the dangerous import of melamine-contaminated milk into the U.S. and settlement outposts in the West Bank. She regularly reports on issues related to journalism, and the work of journalists.

She holds a BA from the University of Southern California in International Relations, and has been a member of several prominent national and international professional media organizations, including the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the International Women’s Media Foundation, the New York Press Club, and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel with her husband and son.

Areas of Focus:
New Media; Journalism; Culture and Society