The tiles in the floor of the pre-press room at Al-Haram newspaper offices in Cairo, Egypt.
I spent four hours last night documenting and filming at the offices of Al-Haram shadowing the deputy editor as he closes the paper and edits the front page between editions with his night crew. I left at 1 a.m., the editor in charge left two hours later.
I have shot video clips to also let you see what it is like to work on the front page at Egypt’s largest-circulation paid daily newspaper. So stay tuned . . . I am flying back to Chicago in a few hours and it may take a week or so to recalibrate my senses. Continue reading ‘CMYK at Al-Haram in Cairo, Egypt’
Video tour: Newspaper design workshop in Cairo
I am in egypt this week teaching a series of newspaper design workshops at the beginning and advanced levels. This video and photo slideshow shows students from the first day designing, presenting and critiquing prototype newspapers they created as part of the rapid-prototyping section of the training.
Robb Montgomery will be working again with Egyptian partners of the Media Development Project (A USAID-funded group) Robb’s fifth and longest trip to Egypt will consist of many training events and private consultations where he will share knowledge and expertise about newspaper design, visual journalism and multimedia reporting.
The exact schedule is still in development but days are already sold out for redesign workshops at the Press Syndicate.
So you want to be a interactive multimedia video journalist?
Viewmagazine.tv’s creator David Dunkley Gyimah created this trailer for what he calls the “Mi6 Videojournalist Manifesto.”
I simply call the work we did in Cairo the work of two “fully-trained” journalists.
Moez Ledeen Ellah Street MDP’s Tarek Atia and Viewmagazine.tv’s David Dunkley Gyimah interview a shop owner.
CAIRO: I am working in Egypt this week for the Media Development Project and we are training the country’s journalists about the concepts and practice of visual editing, newspaper design and multimedia.
CAIRO: View of a church and satellite dish packed rooftops taken from the 20th floor of the Marriott Hotel on the island of Zamalek (Also known as al guezirah)
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
