Independent media was the target of the Mubarak Regime today in Egypt and all day I have been tweeting, retweeting and cross-posting items to Facebook until a private beta invite from Storify landed in my mail box and made the task a lot easiers. The result
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The Toronto Star is running my latest video - Egypt’s Faceless Revolution
The past few days I have been making audio interviews with several Egyptian sources about what is happening in the country and in their neighborhoods. Fascinating history unfolding. Will take some time to edit the hours of recorded audio and cut into a story. I probably will turn it into film because I think that subtitles will need to be added to aid comprehension.
Old Cairo: Walk with me as I squirm through the narrow passages of the famous souk at Khan el-Khalili.
In these ancient streets the passages are full of mosques, vendors, deliveries, tourists and shoppers all mixing at the same time. The sounds emerging through all this are of the Friday prayers. I prefer to make my way through the labyrinth during the quiet morning time.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
An Egyptian dive master briefs SCUBA divers moments before they dive in the coral reefs of the Red Sea.
Shazly, an Egyptian SCUBA dive master gives the briefing before my tour of Ras Mohamed National Park.
The site where two bodies of water meet is an undersea paradise off the Sinai coast.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
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’
Robb will return to the Media Development project to train Egyptian journalists and develop mobile media strategies with publishers.
The offices in Cairo are run by and with a grant from .
Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.
Continue reading ‘Egypt Media (Part 2)’
Egypt Media (Part 2)
Cairo, Egypt
June 10 — 25, 2010Robb will return to the Media Development project to train Egyptian journalists and develop mobile media strategies with publishers.
The offices in Cairo are run by and with a grant from .
Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.
Continue reading ‘Egypt Media (Part 1)’
Egypt Media (Part 1)
Cairo, Egypt
May 29, 2010 — June 4, 2010Robb is not only a very professional trainer in multimedia subjects he is also a visionary that translates his ideas into money-spinning strategy.
On top he is much liked by his students and colleagues for putting things across to them in a patient, yet convincing way.
In Egypt he is helping change mind-sets on print-online-mobile migration and the monitization thereof.
Continue reading ‘Joe Raffelberg (Egypt Media Development Program)’
CAIRO - Feb. 14 to March 4, 2010:
Continue reading ‘Cairo: 3 weeks of multimedia workshops for journalists’
Daily News Egypt is doing a good job of using Twitter to cover Obama and Clinton speech at Cairo University today
Continue reading ‘Obama speech in Cairo forces me to work from home’
