June 5-10, 2010
Robb Montgomery will be working with the World Editors Forum at the annual WAN-IFRA congress in Beirut, Lebanon.
World Editors Forum (Beirut)
Beirut, Lebanon
June 05 — 10, 2010Monthly Archive for November, 2009
September, 2010
Teesside University Journalism conference
Middlesbrough, England
Dates TBA
News Innovation: Journalism, Technology and Design 2010.
In association with the Society for News Design
News Innovation & Technology (U.K)
Middlesbrough, UK
September 01 — 04, 2010The 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.
MONACO: Mathias Döpfner opened his interview segment at the Monaco Media Forum with the stunning news that the German media giant’s newspaper division is showing a 25.4% profit.
“If print is a dead business, then this kind of death feels pretty comfortable for me.”
No kidding. Springer is riding in the opposite direction of almost every other western media house. Yes, Arianna Huffington is also on stage but is clearly outclassed in this discussion.
VIDEO
Continue reading ‘Germany’s Mathias Döpfner: Our newspapers show 25.4% profit’
I am teaching a four day seminar on multimedia reporting to Web journalists for France 24. France 24 is A CNN-style 24/7 video and Web news organization designed for a French audience.
I was hired as a consultant to New York City-based Mignon-Media and have been working closely with Jeff Mignon for months in preparation to make this the best possible training event possible.
The studios are first-class, state-of-the art. Uber-impressive.
The editor-in-chief, Karine Broyer, gave me a tour while they were broadcasting and then she came to attend the class. I can tell you right now that impresses me the most. When the editor comes to class.
I have, without fail, witnessed over the years that when the editor goes to class with staff that the training takes hold.
Continue reading ‘France24: Teaching Multimedia Reporting in Paris’
Robb Montgomery will present a three day workshop for journalists at Forbes magazine (Axel-Springer, Russia) Jan. 21-23, 2010.
Multimedia reporting (Moscow)
Moscow, Russia
January 20 — 24, 2010
