Backpack journalism explained
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
Whatever you call them–VJs, MMJs or backpackers–reporters who shoot and edit their own material are becoming more common in large market television stations. WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, was the first in a top-10 market to make solo journalists the norm. So what’s it like? Georgetown University grad student Deborah Lynn Green, who interned at WUSA [...]
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