Learn the culture and best practices for creating digital media to work better with the real-time Web.
Join us October 5-7, 2009 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.
What will I learn? WEB REPORTING - Monday, October 5
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, manage a Twitter persona for yourself or your organization and dig into many delicious ways to use social media for research and publishing.
Not sure how best to use Twitter for your newsroom or for yourself? You may want to register for this new Twitter Webinar I have just designed for the Paris-based World Editors Forum.
I, naturally, just tweeted the details but for those who follow this blog instead of @robbmontgomery the details, cost and links are included here.
Twitter for journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar
I have been invited to speak about non-narrative journalism techniques at the 16th World Editors Forum to be held next March in Hyderabad, India.
This will be my fifth consecutive WAN/WEF event and my second as a presenter. I will also be directing a team of video journalists to produce daily reports just like I have done for the Editors Forum in 2006 in Moscow, in 2007 in Cape Town and in 2008 in Sweden. More details on that will come, but I am delighted to again be sharing the stage with a couple of world-class visual journalists. Alberto gave a great graphics presentation at a Paris event I attended in June and Joerdis presented on adventure mobile journalism and advanced graphics at SND Las Vegas.
Sixth Session (14H30 – 15H30) Visual journalism: the rise of infographics and non narrative news Newspaper design and infographics are more and more important in an increasingly visual world. Participants will learn from the best examples of 2008’s print and online redesigns and get an in-depth look at the best in non-narrative news.
I am back in Chicago after a week in London, Bucharest and Berlin working on a variety of journalism projects. I pitched up to the University of Westminster in London this week to deliver a lecture to a friend’s Journalism 101 class.
Here’s a few photos:
A conversation more than a lecture - which was exactly the point. We talked about newspaper journalism, the challenges facing the industry and the skills that reporters need to work in today’s newsrooms. It was a great morning.
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.
