New media and video journalism
Cologne: Germany defeats England 4-1 in the World Cup and the next morning the front page sales display of the Bild, Germany’s top-selling newspaper screams the news. Most German papers had boring fronts. Interesting, I thought, to judge this cover design in the proper context - a point of sale box.
Se below for a close-up and the full broadsheet view.
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American journalist and filmmaker, Robb Montgomery, will join a convening at the C ‘n’ B conference in Cologne, Germany on June 25. He will show rough-cut scenes from his ongoing documentary, “Breaking The News,” a feature-length movie that documents the disruptive changes affecting journalism around the world.
Follow the conference:
C ‘n’ B Festival & Convention | 23 - 28 June 2010 | Cologne
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My colleague, Ahmed Montasser, is providing simultaneous Arabic to
English translation to me in this moment. He is literally whispering
into my ear as I query an editor at the steps of Al Ahram. Egypt's
largest newspaper
Over the past three weeks I have filmed more than eight key interviews in Toronto, Moscow, Cairo and Alexandria for the journalism documentary, "Breaking The News."
Interviews with editors-in-in chief in Moscow and Alexandria, entrepreneurial journalists at a week-old-online startup in Toronto, and today, the chairman of the board of a 15,000 employee media house in the most populated Arabic country in the world.
Continue reading ‘On the set of "Breaking The News": Cairo and Al Ahram’
SLIDESHOW: Teaching rapid prototyping and new product development strategies to media managers in Egypt.
Today my students completed a USAID-funded workshop designed to teach journalists how to use market-focused techniques and apply a systematic, segmented approach to developing actionable ideas and quality prototypes designed to reach a new or existing audience.
Egypt’s media houses are using training efforts like this to modernize their news operations and develop independent revenue sources.
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I just sent this e-mail to Steve Jobs.
Wish me luck that he will reply.
My question is simply this:
Can Apple reconcile Steve Jobs’ support for press freedoms with the fact that they censor news content for apps?
Continue reading ‘My dear Steve Jobs e-mail RE: Press freedoms and Apple's news censors’
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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