New media and video journalism
Old Cairo: Walk with me as I squirm through the narrow passages of the famous souk at Khan el-Khalili.
In these ancient streets the passages are full of mosques, vendors, deliveries, tourists and shoppers all mixing at the same time. The sounds emerging through all this are of the Friday prayers. I prefer to make my way through the labyrinth during the quiet morning time.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
Gothenburg: A summer tour of the city on graduation day for Swedish High School students and an island cruise from Saltholmen.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
These little side projects were filmed as I travelled to Sweden, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Canada and Scotland producing the documentary film, “Breaking The News.”
An Egyptian dive master briefs SCUBA divers moments before they dive in the coral reefs of the Red Sea.
Shazly, an Egyptian SCUBA dive master gives the briefing before my tour of Ras Mohamed National Park.
The site where two bodies of water meet is an undersea paradise off the Sinai coast.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
I am sharing a sheaf of fresh newspaper pages devoted to Germany’s world cup semifinal loss to Spain, July 7, 2010.
These photos were taken in the lobby of Axel Springer in Berlin - the publisher of Bild, Die Welt and the Berliner Morgenpost. I was cycling all over Berlin yesterday and this was the only place where I found copies of all the local papers. Naturlich!
The Dream is Over
Continue reading ‘Newspaper pages: Germany loses to Spain in World Cup’
I thought I would make a tutorial for how to send a DVD through the Internet.
I am in Germany and need to send a DVD image to Florida for my brother to burn to a playable DVD movie disc. Snail mail and the delays in international customs processing will make for a slow delivery.
The Challenge:
Send a 4 GB DVD disc image halfway around the world.
The Solution:
This video tutorial that shows how to send a disc image of a DVD using free tools and free file sharing services. (For Mac OSX.)
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.
Continue reading ‘World Cup ~ Bild Front Page in Köln after Germany defeats England’
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
Continue reading ‘Cologne: C 'n' B Festival’
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.
Continue reading ‘Cairo: 3-day course in rapid-prototyping techniques’
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 works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
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