Journalism and news are great places to visit, say many documentary makers, but not places they want to make a career in. It's impossible to say just
Journalism
American journalism education has changed considerably since the days of Tom Paine, John Peter Zenger and Isaiah Thomas, when a would-be reporter like
With the popularity of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Super Size Me, it would be understandable for documentarians to think that in order to have a successful
"Students who enter the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Documentary Program are students who understand that they
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A review of the book 'Into the Fray: How NBC's Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News'
"Truth is the first casualty of war," the old adage says. And in the case of the war in Iraq it is alarmingly accurate. Documentarians have stepped in
Karin Stellwagen of The Brooks Institute works with a panel of documentarians, jouralists and legal professionals to decipher the intricate balance between video journalism and documentary filmmaking.
A map of Lower Manhattan... A mini-umbrella for unexpected spring thunderstorms... Comfortable shoes for pounding the New York sidewalks... And of
When we think of documentary filmmakers, we think of work that has a pattern: conceive, research, document, edit, distribute. Of course, that's a