http://www.robbmontgomery.com International Media Consultant Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:41:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TBILISI: Finally, I can share some images from a special project that I have been working developing and designing for IREX Georgia since January. The facility will open in December and I am sharing below construction photos and some of our 3D renderings for the concept. This new media training ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/11/sneak-peek-smart-newsroom-photos-3d-images/ A multimedia archive that remembers Steve Jobs. Interviews, images, videos, tributes, quotes, and timelines. [View this story on Storify] http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-19952011-visual-obituary/ This behind-the-scenes film report examines the contrasts in Egyptian society from places few Western journalists have ever been allowed to film at. I produced this custom report for The Toronto Star's Web site from Berlin, Germany where I was sidelined in the first days of the revolution. The Toronto Star ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/03/video-egypts-faceless-revolution-directors-cut/ 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 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/02/storify-track-media-crackdown-egypt/ 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 ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/02/video-egypts-faceless-revolution/ 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 ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/01/hey-publishers-stop-selling-content-start-selling-ipad-owners-pay/ 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) http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2011/01/tbilisi-design-multiplatform-newsroom/ 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 ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/11/the-new-york-times-printed-at-a4-size/ 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 ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/10/private-interview-york-times-ceo-janet-robinson/ 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. Upcoming workshops Contact Robb Montgomery http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/10/cairo-egypt-media-workshops/ 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. Upcoming workshops Contact Robb Montgomery http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/10/cairo-egypt-digital-reporting-workshops/ 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. http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/10/tbilisi-georgia-newspaper-design-workshops/ 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. ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/10/interviews-at-the-world-editors-forum/ 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 ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/09/edinburgh-toronto-problems-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." Visits to the Kremlin, city streets, Metro ... http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2010/08/ussr-scenes/