Interview with Janet Robinson,
CEO of The New York Times Company
Hamburg, Germany

I recently sat, quite literally in fact, on a sofa with Janet Robinson, the CEO of The New York Times to talk about paid content, intellectual property rights for news publishers and the future of paid content as the market shifts from search to mobile apps.
She had just given a lecture at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg and Editors Weblog editor Emma Heald and I deftly arranged to interview her in the room we were using for film interviews with editors-in-chief.
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November 15-16, 2010
BRUSSELS: Robb Montgomery will produce a two day audio/video reporting workshop for EU Parliament correspondents. Montgomery taught a similar course for the client here in January, 2009.
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January 29- February 21, 2011
CAIRO: Robb Montgomery will be in Egypt to work with the Media Development program and advise on the Al-Ahram FUTUROOM project.
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December 5-17, 2010
CAIRO: Robb Montgomery will be producing a series of workshops on digital journalism and multimedia reporting for the Egypt Media Development Program, A USAID-funded project.
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November 8-12, 2010
TBILISI, Georgia: Robb Montgomery will be producing a series of newspaper design workshops for Editors, publishers and designers as part of the IREX program for Media Strengthening.
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I interviewed several key thinkers at the 17th World Editors Forum in Hamburg last week.
You can watch some of the edited clips on the WEF Hamburg You Tube Channel.
You’ll find thematic clips from Erik Wilberg, Lucy Küng, Janet Robinson, Neil McIntosh, Giovanni di Lorenzo and Abdel-Moniem Said. I made many more interviews and hope to edit them in the near future.
It was an intense week for sharing new ideas. The congress was sold out, there were editors from more than 60 countries with many top people engaged in the packed sessions.
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