Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Video: Readers talk about Chicago Tribune redesign

A first-day report from the upscale suburban streets of Chicago, home to the Chicago Tribune’s core readership. I went out to see what people who were reading the Monday Sept. 29 edition were saying about the shrunk-down three-section paper and the new emphasis on graphic design.

More reaction around the Web:

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Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago’s Carol Marin

Camp Video Journalism

I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.

Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.

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VIDEO from Las Vegas - Svetlana Maximchenko, Editor-in-Chief of Akzia

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LAS VEGAS: This an interview I made with the 27-year-old founding editor for Moscow’s youth-oriented Akzia newspaper. Svetlana Maximchenko was in Las Vegas to pick up her award for World’s Best Designed newspaper and also speak at the SND APME congress.buy Trainspotting

Video Obit: Death of a small-town newspaper

This cryptic line was recently posted by VizEd member William Fouts in a blog entry.

“Today was an extraordinarily sad day. Today, I posted OUR obituary.”

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SND Las Vegas report: Embracing the social narrative


Slide from Andrew DeVigal’s SND session in Las Vegas. Andrew is the multimedia editor of The New York Times.

Photo by Ashley Dinges

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Robb’s flight plans for fall 2008



Robb’s flight plans for fall 2008

I will be in Las Vegas next week directing a team of student journalists who will be filing multimedia reports from the APME SND congress.

September and October will have my world in constant motion. These are the next scheduled seminars on my calendar.

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India (Design workshop)

Two day class on design and newspaper redesign in Hyderabad, India. Offered by IFRA and taught by Robb Montgomery.

November, 17-18, 2008
Hyderabad, India
Registration and seminar details are available on the IFRA Web site.

India (Design workshop)
Hyderabad, India
November 17 — 18, 2008