New media and video journalism
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.
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.
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’
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.
Continue reading ‘Interviewing editors at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg’
A preview scene from the upcoming journalism documentary film “Breaking The News.”
In the first part: Scottish design guru, Ally Palmer talks about the generation gaps between newspaper publishers and youth media consumers.
In the second part, Toronto Star Editor-in-Chief, Michael Cooke talks about the revenue problems and where new opportunities for newspapers come from.
== ABOUT THE FILM ==
Continue reading ‘Edinburgh and Toronto: Problems with print media’
Visits to the Kremlin, city streets, Metro stations, Moscow State University and an outdoor museum featuring iconic symbols of the former CCCP.
A fun little music video made from behind-the-scenes footage of Robb Montgomery filming scenes in Moscow for the documentary film “Breaking The News.”
Ride along on the Sea to Sky Highway and take a swoosh with me down the glaciers of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia.
Self-filmed with my trusty Lumix LX-2 digi cam and Zoom H4 recorder.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues.
Continue reading ‘Vancouver: Sea to Sky to Ski down Blackcomb Mountain’
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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