New media and video journalism
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’
American journalist and filmmaker, Robb Montgomery, will join a convening at the C ‘n’ B conference in Cologne, Germany on June 25. He will show rough-cut scenes from his ongoing documentary, “Breaking The News,” a feature-length movie that documents the disruptive changes affecting journalism around the world.
Follow the conference:
C ‘n’ B Festival & Convention | 23 - 28 June 2010 | Cologne
Continue reading ‘Cologne: C 'n' B Festival’
My colleague, Ahmed Montasser, is providing simultaneous Arabic to
English translation to me in this moment. He is literally whispering
into my ear as I query an editor at the steps of Al Ahram. Egypt's
largest newspaper
Over the past three weeks I have filmed more than eight key interviews in Toronto, Moscow, Cairo and Alexandria for the journalism documentary, "Breaking The News."
Interviews with editors-in-in chief in Moscow and Alexandria, entrepreneurial journalists at a week-old-online startup in Toronto, and today, the chairman of the board of a 15,000 employee media house in the most populated Arabic country in the world.
Continue reading ‘On the set of "Breaking The News": Cairo and Al Ahram’
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.
Continue reading ‘Ally Palmer, 'Breaking the News' and the future of journalism’
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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