This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
Last week I filmed an interview with Ally Palmer in Edinburgh.
I went to bonnie Scotland to film scenes for the documentary film “Breaking the News” and to unwind and unplug from my multimedia world tour to newsrooms and classrooms in many countries.
I started editing the Palmer interview on the plane ride from Frankfurt to Chicago and will post a VizEds exclusive excerpt soon.
I am teaching a four day seminar on multimedia reporting to Web journalists for France 24. France 24 is A CNN-style 24/7 video and Web news organization designed for a French audience.
I was hired as a consultant to New York City-based Mignon-Media and have been working closely with Jeff Mignon for months in preparation to make this the best possible training event possible.
The studios are first-class, state-of-the art. Uber-impressive.
The editor-in-chief, Karine Broyer, gave me a tour while they were broadcasting and then she came to attend the class. I can tell you right now that impresses me the most. When the editor comes to class.
I have, without fail, witnessed over the years that when the editor goes to class with staff that the training takes hold.
A few weeks ago I interviewed Mario Garcia, Ph.D. in Prague for the feature-length documentary film project I am producing. I have filmed many interviews over the last two years that document this historic moment in journalism history.
Mario Garcia talks with Robb Montgomery for his documentary film project about journalism in transition.
I am making parts of this film while I have the opportunities to witness these changes up close.
Martha Stone of Shaping the Future of News asked me to share some excerpts from Mario’s interview on a big screen next month at the WAN-IFRA congress in Hyderabad, India.
Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.
Cairo: This week I am producing a new documentary film about the Egypt Media Development Program (A USAID funded initiative) with budding MDP filmmakers Ahmed and Amr. These guys are great. Ahmed and I have made two Arabic-language film documentaries in the last year and we have time to make this new one really high quality.
In the first week we have made a half dozen interviews with journalists that MDP has trained and we filmed on locations all around Cairo. We have visited the offices of the news training centers for journalists the program has established at MENA, Al Ahram Al Akbar, Cairo University and other news organizations. We have done interviews in the streets and at sunrise this morning we filmed some new footage from the Pyramids. We were buzzed by huge military aircraft flying at low altitude. Have to wait for the film to be ingested to see how it came out but here re a few snaps from my trusty LX-2 which has joined me on my adventures the last four years.
I am starting week two of my three-month training tour and thought I would share what the Toronto Star’sRoger Gillespie and learned about the Toronto Camp VJ Workshop .
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