New media and video journalism
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.
Upcoming workshops
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“Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad.”
That is not a typo.
will allow designers to create quick wireframes and mockups for your web, iPhone and iPad projects, using an iPad.
This preview video heralds a wave of new productivity and design-focused apps.
Continue reading ‘Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad and iPhone’
The Victoria Advocate's Harry Potter themed newspaper.
He writes that his newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, had “a lot of success with the Victoria Prophet single pages we did in 2007. This year we went bigger and better with an entire section. We turned our weekly entertainment section into the Victoria Prophet with local feature stories, Advertising, Games, and we even have ads for the busniesses in the world of Harry Potter.”
In a time of contraction for some U.S. newsrooms it is heartening to see a paper take an idea like this and run with it and really, really do it right.
Continue reading ‘Texas newspaper's cool Harry Potter style newspaper’
Robb Montgomery in Moscow.
Continue reading ‘Visual Journalism lecture (Moscow)’
Authors of scientific journals are building the kinds of prototypes for Web articles that media groups seemingly are unable, or unwilling to do.
Allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques.
Continue reading ‘Scientists design prototypes for “Article of the Future.”’
From Brussels, DeMorgen’s front page meshes the print and online worlds. A word glyph of the words from President Obama’s address paired with an iconic image and strongly worded headline.
Those word cloud graphics are striking and surprisingly easy to generate at worldle.net
Continue reading ‘Best front page designs: Obama Inauguration’
Hyderabad: Below is a slideshow of photos from the start of a two day newspaper design and redesign workshop in Hyderabad, India. These photos were taken by my host V Antony, Business development manager of IFRA India. Antony’s background is in prepress - so hat’s off to him for making some nice documentary images.
The sold out training event brought together editors and designers from Singapore, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and their interest in gaining knowledge is great.
Continue reading ‘Photos from India newspaper design workshop’
I am flying to Bucharest today at the invitation of the World Editors Forum to teach two Master Classes at the Executive Media Management Institute.
I really like the structure of these discussions - 20 minute presentation and 70 minute conversation, that’s a great format for an executive audience and my favorite style of teaching.
See the schedule below:
Continue reading ‘Schedule: Master Classes for Romanian Editors-in-Chief’
A first-day report from the upscale suburban streets of Chicago, home to the Chicago Tribune’s core readership. I went out to see what people who were reading the Monday Sept. 29 edition were saying about the shrunk-down three-section paper and the new emphasis on graphic design.
More reaction around the Web:
Continue reading ‘Video: Readers talk about Chicago Tribune redesign’
Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?
The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.
Continue reading ‘How a magazine spread is designed and the handwriting of type designers’
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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