Robb Montgomery

A quick film update,

I have arrived in Berlin after an all too short visit in Paris where I spent time with cherished colleagues and made new ones at the IFRA and SND joint visual journalism confab. It was a two day event held in the Trocadero district (Across from Eiffel tower) at the ultra-luxe Apple executive briefing center. Some video to follow - I filled three tapes over two days, SOTs (Interviews and pieces to camera), sequences in the rain (the never-ending rain!) and plenty of B-roll.

The sequence above is a fresh film fragment - A short vignette in a cross-town cab ride from the time in Paris - more to come as time allows but I am now in Berlin working with KB and here to accompany Lukas on a newspaper redesign pitch.
And then it is off to Sweden Saturday morning to the World Newspaper Congress and to lead a video team of student journalists who will films and document the World Editors Forum in Gothenborg.

Below is the program - as you can see there will be little time to edit the footage from Cairo, Paris and Michigan. Stay tuned for films from Sweden!

EDITORS FORUM PROGRAMME
Editors Forum Social Events are in italics

SUNDAY 1 JUNE

Round Tables (9h30 - 12h30)
Joint roundtables with the World Newspaper Congress:
The Annual Press Freedom Round Table
The Annual Digital Media Round Table
The Annual Young Reader Round Table 
Free registration to all roundtables for conference attendees

Editors cocktail (17H00 – 18H30):
‘Editors meet Editors meet Editors meet…’
Fi A networking event for all Editors participating in the forum
Presentation of the 2008 World Editors Partnership Programme
Introduction by Tomas Brunegard, CEO, Stampen Group, Sweden
Location: Gothia Towers hotel, The Eastern Tower, on the 18th floor.

Welcome Party (19h15)
With the World Newspaper Congress

MONDAY 2 JUNE

First editors breakfast (8H15 – 9H30):
‘WEF meets Swedish editors’
Meeting editors from this year’s host nation, Sweden
Guest Speaker : Peter Hjorne, Editor-in-Chief of the op/ed-pages, Göteborgs Posten
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants
Location: Room J1

Opening ceremony (10H – 12H):
Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress
Presentation of the 2008 WAN Golden Pen of Freedom by George Brock, President, World Editors Forum

LUNCH / BUFFET (12H15 – 13H45)
‘WEF meets Ole Danbolt Mjoes, the president of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee’ / Exclusive lunch for Forum participants
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
Location: Room J1

World Trends in the Newspaper Industry (14H – 14H40)
Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress
By Timothy Balding, CEO, WAN

Exclusive surveys released at the opening session (15H – 16H)

International consumer study from The Associated Press:

By Jim Kennedy, Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning, The Associated Press, USA, and Robbie Blinkoff, principal anthropologist, Context Research, USA

Presentation of the second ‘Newsroom Barometer’ - the integrated newsroom: why, how and when

By:
John Zogby, President, Zogby International, USA
Christoph Pleitgen, Head of News, Reuters Media, UK

Chairman: George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times, UK

COFFEE BREAK – 16h

First session / Panel (16H15 – 17H45)
Will Web 2.0 give birth to Journalism 2.0?

Opening presentation by Nikesh Arora, President EMEA Operations & Vice-President, Google Inc., UK

Other panelists:
Kathleen Carroll, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, The Associated Press, USA
Pierre Bellanger, CEO and founder, Skyblogs and Skyrock, France
Bosse Svensson, General Director, MKT Media, Sweden

Chairman: George Brock, Editor, Saturday Times, UK

Evening event (19H30)
With the World Newspaper Congress
Dinner and entertainment outdoors

TUESDAY 3 JUNE

Second editors breakfast (8H – 9H):
‘Sweden’s world-beating design with IKEA’
Introduction by Anna Efverlund and Mia Lundström, Ikea senior designers
Breakfast sponsor: David Lega – “Outstanding Young Person Of The World”
Become inspired by Lega and HandsFree! (www.davidlega.com)
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
Location: Room J1

Second Session (9H15 – 10H45)
Are integrated newsrooms really working?

With :
Javier Moreno, Editor-in-Chief, El Pais, Spain
Jim Roberts, Editor of Digital News, The New York Times, USA
Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO, Det Berlingske Officin, and Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark
Almar Latour, Managing Editor, wsj.com, Wall Street Journal, USA
Svetlana Mironyuk, Editor-in-Chief, RIA Novosti, Russia

Chairman: Bruno Patino, President, Le Monde Interactif, France

COFFEE BREAK – 10H45

Third Session (11H – 12H30)
Are mobile news and “mojos” changing journalism?

With:
Paul Cheesbrough, Chief Information Officer, Telegraph Media Group, UK
Ilicco Elia, Product Manager - Mobile & Emerging Media, Reuters, UK
Michael Cooper, Director of Advanced Reading Technologies, Microsoft, USA
Oscar Westlund, Doctoral Student, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Chairman: Robert Andrews, Editor-in-Chief, paidContent.UK, United Kingdom

LUNCH (12H30 – 14H)
‘WEF meets Garry Kasparov, Drugaya Rossiya / The Other Russia coalition, Russia’
Exclusive lunch with the leader of the Russian opposition
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants
Location: Room J1

Fourth Session (14H – 15H45)
The hyper-local news model : a solution for print and online

With:
Reetta Merilaïnen, Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
Elin Olofsson, News Editor, Östersunds Posten, Sweden
Steve Paulussen, Senior Researcher, Ghent University, Belgium and Jane B. Singer, Professor, University of Central Lancashire - UCLAN, UK

Chairman: Oliver Luft, News Editor, journalism.co.uk, UK

COFFEE BREAK – 15H45

Fifth Session / Panel (16H – 17H30)
Digital media training for the new newsroom

With:
Chris Lloyd, Assistant Managing Editor, Daily Telegraph, UK
David Dunkley Gyimah, Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Bertrand Pecquerie, Director, World Editors Forum, France
Mike Ward, Director, School of Journalism, Media & Communication at the University of Central Lancashire, UK
Werner Eggert, Editor in Chief, Tide, Germany

Chairman: Joakim Eklund, Senior Scriptwriter and Training Concept Developer, HiQ Interactive, Sweden

ICFJ’s Newsmakers Cocktail (18H00 – 19H30):
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the International Center for Journalists will hold a cocktail reception to announce the 2008 Knight International Journalism Award winners.
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
Location: Gothia Towers hotel, The Eastern Tower, on the 18th floor.

EVENING FREE

WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE

Sixth Session (9H – 10H30)
Weekends win over weekdays

With
Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief, Globe & Mail, Canada
Frank Denton, Vice-President for Journalism, Morris Communications, USA (presentation by Gloria Anderson, New York Times)
Erik Bjerager, Editor in Chief, Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark
José-Manuel Fernandes, Editor-in-Chief, Publico, Portugal

Chairman: Grant Perry, Director, Global Media Entrepreneurship, George Washington University, USA

COFFEE BREAK – 10H30

Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress (10H45 – 12H)
2008 Global Report on Innovations in Newspapers
by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group

World Editors Forum Annual General meeting (from 12H10 to 12H50)
Including the election of new World Editors Forum Board Members and the election of the 2008 – 2010 WEF President

LUNCH (13H – 14H15)
WEF welcomes its new President
‘The World Editors Forum presents its Professional Online Network to its community’
Guest Speaker: Olivier Creiche, Vice President and General Manager, Six Apart Europe.
Open to all Forum participants, but pre-registration required.
Location: Room J1

Seventh Session (14H30 – 15H30)
2007 – 2008 print and online launches

With :
Gianni Valenti, Deputy Editor, Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, Mint, India
Ignacio Escolar, Editor-in-Chief, Publico, Spain
Pierre Haski, Founder and Editor in Chief, Rue89.com, France
Dominic Young, Director of Editorial Services, Intellectual Property,
News International Ltd, UK

Chairman: Roy Greenslade, Media Columnist, The Guardian, UK

Eigth Session (15H30 – 17H00)
Content Management Systems: what fits best in your integrated newsroom

With
Oliver Michalsky, Deputy Editor in Chief, Die Welt with EScenic, Germany
Patrick Saliën, Manager, Nieuwsblad.be with Polopoly, Belgium
Geoffrey Pereira, Head of Editorial Systems, Singapore Press Holdings with ATEX, Singapore
Luc Petitfrère, Deputy Editor in Chief, Edipresse with Eidos Media, Switzerland
Pieter Sijpersma, Editor in chief, Dagblad van het Noorden with CCI, The Netherlands

Chairman: German Löjk Garcia, Director, Clarin Global, Argentina

End of the 15h World Editors Forum

Gala dinner (19H30)

More info at:
http://www.wansweden2008.com” http://www.wansweden2008.com

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