New media and video journalism
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 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.
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Continue reading ‘Edinburgh and Toronto: Problems with print media’
Cologne: Visit the twin-steepled Dom, the street cafes and a lover’s bridge over the Rhine River.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues.
These little side projects were filmed as I travelled to Sweden, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Canada and Scotland producing the documentary film, “Breaking The News.”
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Continue reading ‘The Lover's Bridge in Cologne, Germany’
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.
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.
This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.
I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .
Continue reading ‘Video: Why is there no daily newspaper in a city of six million people?’
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LAS VEGAS: This an interview I made with the 27-year-old founding editor for Moscow’s youth-oriented Akzia newspaper. Svetlana Maximchenko was in Las Vegas to pick up her award for World’s Best Designed newspaper and also speak at the SND APME congress.buy Trainspotting
A new video from Cairo about the innovations and developments in Egyptian newspapers-with a focus on the new design techniques being used to deal with a more competitive media environment. With commentary by Akhbar and MENA chairman, as well as Cairo U professor and Media Development Program Chief of Party. Video also highlights work being done by USAID-funded Media Development Program with its Egyptian media partners to develop their training centers.
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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