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Train ride: Cairo to Alexandria, Egypt

Travel on Egyptian Railways and enjoy the scenic ride between Cairo and Alexandria.

Features a demo version of Robb’s song “Tumble, Rumble Fumble.”

“Tumble (Reprise)”, is an instrumental variation featuring acoustic guitars.

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Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar

A multi-day course in newspaper design, redesign and visual reporting and editing.

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Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar
Alexandria, Egypt
May 26 — 29, 2009

Video: Why is there no daily newspaper in a city of six million people?

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 . . .

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Making movies in Alexandria, Egypt

Making movies in Alexandria Egypt

The view from my room overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. I am here working with 12 budding filmmakers who will report a video documentary about the state of daily newspapers in this city of six million people.

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Alexandria, Egypt (Lecture on local newspapers)

Robb will lecture on design and Web techniques for improving local newspapers and their connection to serving their audiences. Montgomery will share from his background working as a newspaper editor for small community papers in Florida and the Chicago suburbs.

He will also share some of the latest research and techniques of successful local news operations from around the world.

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Alexandria, Egypt (Lecture on local newspapers)
Alexandria, Egypt
December 03 — 03, 2008