
I love it when my classroom is full of front-line editors and I love it even more if I am allowed to do more than just give lectures and skills training.
I love to produce workshops where participants learn how to generate new ideas and put form to great ideas living inside of them.
Continue reading ‘Zagreb: Workshops to develop new products and prototypes’
Independent media was the target of the Mubarak Regime today in Egypt and all day I have been tweeting, retweeting and cross-posting items to Facebook until a private beta invite from Storify landed in my mail box and made the task a lot easiers. The result
The Toronto Star is running my latest video - Egypt’s Faceless Revolution
The past few days I have been making audio interviews with several Egyptian sources about what is happening in the country and in their neighborhoods. Fascinating history unfolding. Will take some time to edit the hours of recorded audio and cut into a story. I probably will turn it into film because I think that subtitles will need to be added to aid comprehension.
I wrote this first as an answer to a hot thread on Quora, I am posting it here with links to support my view.
Why would print subscribers get the same newspaper on their iPad for free?
The direct answer to the question is that because, in many cases the same publishers already also offer their ‘print’ content on the Web for free.
Continue reading ‘Hey publishers: Stop selling “content” and start selling something iPad owners will pay for’
TBILISI: Robb Montgomery is in Georgia supervising the architectural design and news workflow for a new multi-platform newsroom for the G-MEDIA program. (G-MEDIA is funded by USAID and managed by IREX)
DENMARK: Robb Montgomery will be visiting a large media client to design an upgrade to their video studio and to start story planning new documentary films.
January 24-25, 2011
BRUSSELS: Robb Montgomery will be teaching press officers at the European Parliament how to report and produce broadcast-quality audio reports.
Upcoming workshops
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The New York times printed at A4 size
Tbilisi: I travel quite a bit and I had to arrive in Georgia to find this very handy and practical version of The New York Times. It is printed at A4 size and features clean layouts and smart editing of the best of the best of the day’s edition. Frankly this is a much better product than the NyTimes iPad app.
The paper cost one Georgian Lari but is distributed free at my hotel.
Please NyTimes can I get this great product in Berlin, Bitte?
And Cairo? Shokran.
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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.
Continue reading ‘A private interview with The New York Times CEO, Janet Robinson’
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.
Upcoming workshops
Contact Robb Montgomery