Robb Montgomery

Last week I filmed an interview with Ally Palmer in Edinburgh.

I went to bonnie Scotland to film scenes for the documentary film “Breaking the News” and to unwind and unplug from my multimedia world tour to newsrooms and classrooms in many countries.

I started editing the Palmer interview on the plane ride from Frankfurt to Chicago and will post a VizEds exclusive excerpt soon.

Breaking the News

The documentary film project “Breaking the News” examines the dramatic and global challenges facing journalism’s difficult transition into the information age.

“BTN” is a project that started a couple of years ago when I began traveling to the houses of journalism around the world.

On this latest tour I made new as well as followup interviews with some of the journalists we are following in Canada, Egypt, U.K., Europe and the U.S.

“Breaking the News” is a huge project for the Visual Editors charity to produce and now that I am home I will be responding to letters of interest from journalism and education foundations that are interested in funding the Visual Editors 501(c)(3) non-profit to bring both the film project and the multimedia classroom lesson packs into the market.

Visual Editors has written a focused and richly detailed program description and funding request. If you would like to assist with this project, please contact me via this blog or any of the officers at Visual Editors to learn more.

New funding will allow Visual Editors to also include film of the journalism changes in Latin America and Asia in this seminal report.

Where in the world did Robb go?

A visual update on some of the experiences of my 10-week world tour teaching multimedia journalism.

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Seeing journalism’s future in Berlin

One of the things that may surprise struggling journalists and some media pundits is that some media groups are counter-investing in their future, despite the recession and unrelenting changes to print journalism.

Axel Springer trains 40 journalism students every year in intensive classroom and internships and they have been able to employ them all after they graduate. Pretty incredible, no?

Here’s a quick-turnaround multi-media story element I produced as part of my training workshop recently with one group of these students.