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.)
I am again working with USAID’s Media Development Program to teach video journalism techniques to journalism school faculty and working journalists from many of Egypt’s top newspapers.Patton trailer
Charlie Rose video interview with Arianna Huffington of Huffingtonpost.com and Tom Curley of the Associated Press. They square off for 15 minutes about link journalism and making money with wire news in the digital age.
Scrub the playhead on the timeline to 15:05 to get to the segment.
Fake TV journalist Stephen Colbert conducts a funny, yet fairly useful interview with Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. Twitter, Stone and to a degree, Colbert himself in this context, are all certainly victim of the “law of unintended consequences.”
The Colbert staff cleverly filed Tweets to Stephen’s stream while he was interviewing the guy who created Twitter. Stephen pretended to live Tweet and even post a tweetpic photo of Stone during the interview. Warning: Colbert intentionally mispronounces the word “Tweets.” He calls them “Twats,” for comedic effect.
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.
I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.
Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.
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.
