Our Vermont Independent publisher Rob Williams spent this past weekend at Goddard College running an immersive “Backpack Journalism” mini-course for GIV high school student leaders from all over our Green Mountains. In addition to a “deep dive” into Edward Hermann and Noam Chomsky’s “Propaganda Model of News” 2.0 (updated for our Digital Age) in which we explored the differences between REAL and FAKE news, our GIV students worked in teams to produce real news we can use, with a focus on the GIV work being done by our 75 student leaders.

Local coverage here and below from our Vermont news affiliates:

Here’s a photo montage of the GIV weekend – and we’ll be running a five part series on the GIV stories produced by our high school journalists -in-training over the few weeks.

Find out more about GIV here, and support their worthy work.

GIV welcome! (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

“Backpack Journalism” team. (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

Goddard College. Dawn Patrol. (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

Mobile J with the Pros. (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

GIV’s Grace LaFramboisse sharing our work with the pros, and our teams working on deadline. 

(photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

GIV’s Ethan Schmitt and GIV teams on deadline.

 (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

The entire GIV 2019 community. (photo credit: VI publisher Rob Williams)

EDITOR’S NOTE: No political views, decentralist or otherwise, were shared over the course of the GIV weekend. Our GIV workshop focused on critical media literacy education, the political economy of news media in the digital age, and multimedia mobile news production.