Leipzig: SND DACH organized an exhibition of 2007 World’s Best Designed Newspapers (as well as a few gold and silver medal winners) in the lobby of the Leipziger Volkszeitung
, the local newspaper for Leipzig, Germany.
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
I will be a World Editors forum on-site consultant for two days in Prague working with John Burke, Martha Stone, Bertrand Pecquerie and Francois Nel.
We are brainstorming ideas for a new international multimedia training center for journalists and guiding plans for the launch of dozens of new newspapers for the Czech readers.
Design consulting in Prague
Prague
March 19 — 20, 2009
A multi-day course in newspaper design, redesign and visual reporting and editing.
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Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar
Alexandria, Egypt
May 26 — 29, 2009A four day course in Web video reporting and editing in Final Cut.
I am returning to Egypt for three weeks in May, 2009 to deliver a series of workshops for The Egypt Media Development program.
Cairo: Video reporting and editing workshop
Cairo, Egypt
May 17 — 21, 2009Digital-J school:
Learn how to use RSS feeds how to aggregate them using Yahoo! Pipes. PLUS: See how bookmarking and networking with Delicious can improve your digital classroom.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar on online reporting techniques at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Digital J-school, a seminar for journalism educators
St. Louis - APME Newstrain
March 08 — 08, 2009Planning Content for Multiple Deadlines, Multiple Platforms
Where does the story start and does it ever end in a Twitter-enabled news world? A two-hour lab exercise where delegates will learn and apply the latest techniques for web-centric planning and reporting.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
Registration information.
Planning Content for Multiple Deadlines, Multiple Platforms
St. Louis
March 08 — 08, 2009Making Better Short-Form Video
Discussion of the elements of strong video. Managing and planning for tightly-edited video narratives and lessons from top video journalists.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Making Better Short-Form Video
St. Louis - AME Newstrain
March 08 — 08, 2009What video camera do you use? How should we train reporters to use video? What’s the secret to video on the Web?
Good questions and I attempt to answer them here for my friend, Steve Garfield who has been commissioned to write a book about video journalism and asked me to contribute to a chapter about newspapers using Web video.
Steve’s questions to me are in bold and my answers follow.
1. Why are newspapers training their reporters and photographers to become video producers?
They have observed the sea change with the medium that YouTube ushered in and are catching up to the fact that web video is now a mainstream activity and an affordable form of online journalism. Quite simply that is where the audience is.
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