New media and video journalism
Robb will return to the Media Development project to train Egyptian journalists and develop mobile media strategies with publishers.
The Egypt Media Development offices in Cairo are run by IREX and MSI with a grant from USAID.
Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.
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.
Watch the video walk through below. These Cell Press and Elsevie article designs don’t use Flash, and yet, they don’t conceive of publishing articles without visuals. The designs promote transparency, interaction, and links to establish authority and reward contributors.
Continue reading ‘Scientists design prototypes for “Article of the Future.”’
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.
Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.
One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.