Monthly Archive for March, 2009

A visit to the Leipziger Volkszeitung to see SND DACH best newspaper design gallery exhibit.

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.


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Design consulting in Prague

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

Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar

A multi-day course in newspaper design, redesign and visual reporting and editing.

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I am returning to Egypt for three weeks in May, 2009 to deliver a series of workshops for The Egypt Media Development program.
More details as will be posted as they are finalized

Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar
Alexandria, Egypt
May 26 — 29, 2009

Cairo: Video reporting and editing workshop

A four day course in Web video reporting and editing in Final Cut.

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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, 2009

Poll: What type of training would you attend in the next 12 months?

Many mono media journalists and journalism educators are asking to be retrained to adapt to the networked journalism era. I design and deliver training for my clients and also for the Visual Editors non-profit. When I train journalists in multimedia, it often tends to be multi-platform as well because of tools and techniques I use to teach with.


Please help me out and take this poll and I’ll publish the results when I am back from my European tour. I love the variety of teaching multi-platform skills and I consider myself very lucky to be able to teach this material to colleagues and educators.

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Digital J-school, a seminar for journalism educators

Digital-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, 2009