Robb’s presentation was very helpful, especially for a small staff with limited resources. I look forward to him returning next year to see where we have taken his guidance and to see where we need to be going from there.
Thanks again!
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Just a note to thank the PNA Foundation for the opportunity to have Robb Montgomery visit our newspaper yesterday.
Our staff was very impressed with his presentation. They felt that he showed what is happening in newsrooms around the world as well as what is possible for a staff our size.
They felt his message was inspirational and that was one of the reasons I wanted him to be in Pottsville. After seeing Robb present at America East I felt that he could energize our staff and help with our corporate culture as it pertains to interactive media.
Mission accomplished! Robb was very easy to work with, professional and took the time for a Q&A session.
Continue reading ‘Aimee Eckley, Director of Interactive Media’
The Chicago Tribune has gone tabloid and the critic who was heavily criticized recently by the editor of the paper about the recent redesign of the paper’s redesign has published his first-return review
Spoiler alert
He likes it.
Continue reading ‘'Chicago Tribune tabloid is organized better than the broadsheet” version’
Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.
Cairo: This week I am producing a new documentary film about the Egypt Media Development Program (A USAID funded initiative) with budding MDP filmmakers Ahmed and Amr. These guys are great. Ahmed and I have made two Arabic-language film documentaries in the last year and we have time to make this new one really high quality.
In the first week we have made a half dozen interviews with journalists that MDP has trained and we filmed on locations all around Cairo. We have visited the offices of the news training centers for journalists the program has established at MENA, Al Ahram Al Akbar, Cairo University and other news organizations. We have done interviews in the streets and at sunrise this morning we filmed some new footage from the Pyramids. We were buzzed by huge military aircraft flying at low altitude. Have to wait for the film to be ingested to see how it came out but here re a few snaps from my trusty LX-2 which has joined me on my adventures the last four years.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Continue reading ‘Filming new journalism documentary films in Egypt’
CAIRO: I am working in Cairo for the next three weeks leading a number of training initiatives for working journalists and journalism faculty. Today I began the first course. A video and multimedia journalism workshop at Cairo University. I develop visual and multimedia training events for the Egypt Media Development Program in Cairo and this week my students are journalism school faculty and working reporters from several of Egypt’s top newspapers.
Continue reading ‘Video journalism workshop at Cairo University’
CAIRO: The Supremem Press council opens their new multi-million dollar training center and the Egypt Media Development program’s training consultant, Robb Montgomery, will return to Egypt to open the venue. Montgomery was the first journalist/trainer to train Egyptian journalists at the start of the project.
Montgomery will also be making a new film documentary about all of the training centers and also produce sessions for the Egypt Media Development Program where he will be training the trainers in social media and visual media techniques.
This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
Continue reading ‘Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can’
USC Professor and producer Glenn Luther talk about the challenges for documentary filmmakers.
Continue reading ‘Filmmaking: Working in the documentary form’
Four days of seminars on video journalism - reporting and editing
Produced by Visual Editors and Beamups.com
Monday - Filming and sequences
Oct 26, 2009
Tuesday - Interviewing for video
Oct. 27, 2009
Continue reading ‘Video reporting and editing workshop - London’
The Obama White House staff salaries are shown in this live data graphic visulization. If you updates the figures, the graphic will be updated instantly for the next Web reader.
The White House is uploading all kinds of public data to Socrata. I downloaded this set of numbers and built a Many Eyes graphic in about five minutes.
Source: SOCRATA: 2009 Report to Congress
This is an example of the kind of reporter-driven visualizations that I was teaching France24 journalists in my Web reporting seminars. Continue reading ‘Graphic: White House staff salaries revealed’
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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.
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