One of the students, Noha Atef- Cairo, attending my multimedia journalism workshop at the Press Syndicate in Cairo made this slideshow after the training event.
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In advance of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Egypt June 4, I talk with Egyptians about the president’s first major address from the most populous state in the Arab world and his first from Africa. (The president has made an address from Turkey, but that nation is not part of the Arab League.)
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Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.
Cairo: This week I am producing a new documentary film about the Egypt Media Development Program (A USAID funded initiative) with budding MDP filmmakers Ahmed and Amr. These guys are great. Ahmed and I have made two Arabic-language film documentaries in the last year and we have time to make this new one really high quality.
In the first week we have made a half dozen interviews with journalists that MDP has trained and we filmed on locations all around Cairo. We have visited the offices of the news training centers for journalists the program has established at MENA, Al Ahram Al Akbar, Cairo University and other news organizations. We have done interviews in the streets and at sunrise this morning we filmed some new footage from the Pyramids. We were buzzed by huge military aircraft flying at low altitude. Have to wait for the film to be ingested to see how it came out but here re a few snaps from my trusty LX-2 which has joined me on my adventures the last four years.
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CAIRO: The Supremem Press council opens their new multi-million dollar training center and the Egypt Media Development program’s training consultant, Robb Montgomery, will return to Egypt to open the venue. Montgomery was the first journalist/trainer to train Egyptian journalists at the start of the project.
Montgomery will also be making a new film documentary about all of the training centers and also produce sessions for the Egypt Media Development Program where he will be training the trainers in social media and visual media techniques.
This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
Continue reading ‘Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can’
A multi-day course in newspaper design, redesign and visual reporting and editing.
I am returning to Egypt for three weeks in May, 2009 to deliver a series of workshops for The Egypt Media Development program.
- A four day video journalism workshop at Cairo Univeristy
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Cairo: Video journalism workshops
Cairo, Egypt
May 13, 2009 — June 2, 2009
A multi-day course in newspaper design, redesign and visual reporting and editing.
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Alexandria, Egypt: Multimedia seminar
Alexandria, Egypt
May 26 — 29, 2009A four day course in Web video reporting and editing in Final Cut.
I am returning to Egypt for three weeks in May, 2009 to deliver a series of workshops for The Egypt Media Development program.
Cairo: Video reporting and editing workshop
Cairo, Egypt
May 17 — 21, 2009
This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.
I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .
Continue reading ‘Video: Why is there no daily newspaper in a city of six million people?’
Robb will be directing the production of a news documentary about the state of newspapers and readers in Alexandria, Egypt with a team of eight student videographers and reporters. the project is under the direction of the Media Development Project (A USAID sponsored training and development group)
The central question is “Why doesn’t Alexandria have local newspapers?”
The film will be shot and edited on location in Alexandria, the city of ancient scholarship with historic contributions to the written word and the one-time repository of all human knowledge.
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Alexandria, Egypt (Documentary filmmaking)
Alexandria, Egypt
November 21 — 27, 2008Translate this page
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.
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