In the organization of Socialna akademija there has been a multimedia workshop of backpack journalism at the 6th of April 2011. Socialna akademija arranged training for amateur journalists who would like to report and comment in the professional way.... Read more >>
Participants from Romania, Austria and Slovenia are meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on 8 April for a week-long BPJ journalism camp. After workshops on journalism, photography and video, the budding backpack journalists will spend three days exploring ... Read more >>
Members of the Club of Political Critique in Cieszyn in Poland met on 16th March to try their hands at journalism understood in its broadest sense. The meeting was a part of Backpack Journalism project. The participants, 20 students from CieszynsR... Read more >>
After holding several workshops about BPJ-concerns (journalism, creative writing, video editing, active citizenship, etc.) PEOPLE´S MEDIA, the Austrian association for media-initiatives, started a particular project of young citizen´s participation... Read more >>
Over 300 young journalists met in Brno to discuss youth journalist life. The national event was held on 26 November 2010 as a part of E.U. project Backpack Journalism. Young journalists exchanged their experience about creating magazines. “We o... Read more >>
“Mom, can I go outside and pick some cherries?” “But son, it’s the middle of December.” “I know, I know, scarf, hat, gloves.” So goes the classic Hungarian joke; and soon the punchline will change to “scarf, hat, gloves, cellphone, no... Read more >>
The aim of Backpack Journalism is to raise media literacy of young people through their active participation as non-professional journalists.
The idea of the methodology is to go to a smaller place abroad with basic journalistic equipment and to explore the local environment. Participants (from one or more countries) take all the equipment with them in their backpacks.
The method can be used to motivate and train young people to become citizen journalists also back in their own countries. It also includes a rich learning dimension, not only in the media literacy context but also in terms of intercultural learning, project management, team work and responsible citizenship.
