This is the brand new reel from my close colleague and master VJ instructor in the U.K., David Dunkley-Gyimah. David is joining Angela Grant and myself in Chicago May 5-9 to teach a week of video journalism classes. Visual Editors is planning more seminars like this at venues around the world, so stay tuned.
Future Visual Editors journalism training events will focus on multimedia blogging, social networking for reporters, advanced Web video and audio techniques and the mindset for mobile journalism. I am able to tap a global network of top instructors for these and I am fielding enquiries to host future events from heads of media groups in India, Oceania, Asia, Canada and Europe. Contact me soonest if you re interested in hosting a VizEds training event
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I was just at B and H speccing up a Sony A1U video kit for a client and noticed a $300 rebate on my favorite newspaper video camera - the Sony HVR-A1U.
Michigan State University School of Journalism.
Private training for journalism professor: Web video and digital multimedia reporting and editing techniques.
Robb will spend one week in Cairo training Egyptian editors and educators about newspaper design, graphics, redesign projects and training initiatives.
You know, when the iPhone came out - many people were jealous and quickly showed that their mobile phones also had Google maps, push e-mail and maybe even a touchscreen. OK. Now you can ask them - can you convincingly play the melody to “Chopsticks” on your phone? Or are you in an iPhone band?
Bear with me - this blog is really about the future of mobile journalism This video above is of a digital piano program, or application, that runs on the iPhone. And it it runs on any iPhone that has been hacked to allow users to install new programs on it. The news is that today may be the last day that you would need to “jailbreak” your iPhone to get new functions like this.
At 10 a.m PST time today Apple is set to allow developers (The people who write software applications) to finally release their wares to all iPhone users. Most of the global digerati press corps I know is on a plane right now to Texas right now to cover the SXSW festival. It’s a shame some of them were not invited to Cupertino to talk with the developers who have been invited to Apple’s famous Building No. 4 to get the lowdown on the new capabilities that will soon be coming to iPhone owners.
My family and friends have asked me to tell them my impressions from the last 30 days spent training journalists overseas. I was out of country for the entire month of February with stops in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Croatia, and Egypt. I could start this start this story by deglamorizing it and recalling that the last time I saw my luggage was when I boarded this wee Alitalia turboprop at seven a.m. for a flight from Zagreb to Milan.
Flying over the Adriatic Sea
Perhaps it was while we were buzzing low over the Adriatic, the airline decided I would be be better off wearing the same clothes for four days in Italy. In the end, it took 13 days and dozens of calls (And lost time) to have my bag shipped home to Chicago. Every call to Alitalia led to a new promise of delivery and so I kept waiting. They lied - every time. That’s another blog item for another day.
April 1, 2008: Warsaw, Poland
Robb Montgomery will conduct a one-day seminar on techniques for integrating reporting and editing with the visual departments.
Produced by DPMP for the Axel Springer group of regional newspapers in Poland.
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
