Not many professions ask you to put your life in danger. Journalism is one of them, and Kevin Sites, Associate Professor of Practice and former war correspondent, wants his students to be ready. In the […]
Former backpack war correspondent and JMSC Associate Professor of Practice Kevin Sites recently conducted five days of training for Bulgarian journalists on the basics of digital mobile journalism—the concept of self-reliant individuals shooting, writing and […]
“If I was with the Taliban now, and I saw you … I would kill you.” According to Abdul Matin Sarfraz (MJ, 2013), these words were spoken to him in July by a former fighter […]
For the past ten years, Kevin Sites has reported on war, conflict and disaster all over the world, for the leading American television networks, and then as Yahoo’s first correspondent. His second book based on […]
The emergence of mobile (backpack) journalism is the story of how passion and necessity intersect. It’s about telling the story without changing it, reporting with less intrusion and more flexibility. The reporters’ footprints shrink, while the stories they […]