Chicago Sun-Times Page One Editor, James Smith, is interviewed for more than five minutes on Oprah’s show to talk about the series of historic front pages the paper has published as Barack Obama ascended to the presidency and the White House.
Editor-in-chief Michael CookeDinner at Eight full movie reports in a message to me that he was in the audience while James took the questions. I don’t know about you but I would never imagine Oprah ever giving a five minute interview with a newspaper designer and also wouldn’t think a top editor could ever exhibit that much class by NOT taking the stage.
To give the spotlight to the designer for this occasion is really rare and gallant.
This just in: The World Association of Newspapers has decided to postpone its World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, scheduled to be held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 25 March, until December, due to the impact of the global financial downturn on newspaper companies.
I was scheduled to present at the World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India in March and I guess I am not surprised that the event will be delayed. For the past few years I have also directed teams of video journalists who file daily reports from the congress and I really love working these events. I often describe them as the Olympics of journalism meetups. The host country’s president usually opens the congress and the delegates are all publishers, owners or editors-in-chief. A fascinating group of global media decision-makers.
WAN usually holds these congresses in June and this one was going on a fast-track nine month plan that has been slowed down due to the global economic crisis.
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
