New media and video journalism
Video journalism class will be fun next week: Students include Karl Gude, the dean of a big J-School, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Pull up a chair next to these students at the CAMP VIDEO JOURNALISM.
You can walk up - just give me heads up as the classes are reaching their max capacity.
Here’s the skinny.
Continue reading ‘Video journalism class in Chicago - three seats left’
Two-part lecture on Web video and where the Web is going.
“Trends in online and video journalism.” for The Alliance of Area Business Publications meeting
For members only
Alright, I am building a new ‘database.’
Ooh. that sounds sexy, does it not?
OK. Dull boring word for a file that contains a sparkling collection of teaching talent. Your talent - if you fit the bill.
I am recruiting top journalists who know how to teach Web video, multimedia blogging, database mashups, online communities, widget scripting, mobile-journalism techniques and more.
There are new training ventures for Robb Montgomery Consulting and also the digital journalism non-profit, Visual Editors. More and more of my clients are asking for more and more specialized training and are also asking me to organize and produce custom training events.
Continue reading ‘Do you like to train digital journalists?’
Medill - photoblogged by Robb’s iPhone
I am at Medill teaching two multimedia reporting seminars for the AAN Writers Workshop. Here I am demonstrating how to photoblog using Flickr and an iPhone in real time.
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Why is the content for online journalism different than print or broadcast? And why are journalists confused about what work should be entered in which contest?
The assumption that text, photos and videos are merely the “same content” online as they are in print is part of the mindset that has helped cripple U.S. paper’s online efforts. The change in thinking has been considerable in recent years, but these paradigms still surface in the award season.
The monopoly on information is no longer ours alone. The business models for monopolistic control over distribution and eyeballs is busted, too. That much we can agree on now.
Continue reading ‘The problem with "award-winning" newspaper video journalism’
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.
I was one of two guest speakers and after the Northwick Park work was done - David Dunkley Gyimah and I tubed it Baker Street for some lunch and talked about future projects.
Continue reading ‘UK: Teaching the Principles of Journalism with David Dunkley Gyimah’
I admit, I rarely use my iPhone to make calls. Not that there is anything wrong with calling or getting calls. It’s just this - do you really need to blah, blah, blah all the time with your voice when there are often more useful ways to connect using SMS, e-mail and Web sites (Like Twitter and Facebook) using the Web browser?
I look at my phone bill and all of those wasted minutes for “Voice” that slip past.
I don’t mind calls, I even occasionally make them but more often I initiate voice calls with my Skype account instead of my iPhone. Esp when I travel - it’s so easy and saves me thousands on roaming charges and all. I like the option to open a chat window and pass Web links while I talk with someone. That multi-channel style is just more natural to the types of conversations I have with clients and friends. We talk about a trend and I pass a link to the research. We talk about a video and I pass a link . . . etc.
How to save money with your iPhone
So here’s my setup for mojo with the iPhone. Get a Skype IN account (Not expensive and gives you a phone number in what area code you like.)
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April 17
Robb will be training journalists in on multimedia and web reporting techniques in Alberta, Canada.
Private event - invitation only.
You know, when the iPhone came out - many people were jealous and quickly showed that their mobile phones also had Google maps, push e-mail and maybe even a touchscreen. OK. Now you can ask them - can you convincingly play the melody to “Chopsticks” on your phone? Or are you in an iPhone band?
Bear with me - this blog is really about the future of mobile journalism
This video above is of a digital piano program, or application, that runs on the iPhone. And it it runs on any iPhone that has been hacked to allow users to install new programs on it. The news is that today may be the last day that you would need to “jailbreak” your iPhone to get new functions like this.
At 10 a.m PST time today Apple is set to allow developers (The people who write software applications) to finally release their wares to all iPhone users. Most of the global digerati press corps I know is on a plane right now to Texas right now to cover the SXSW festival. It’s a shame some of them were not invited to Cupertino to talk with the developers who have been invited to Apple’s famous Building No. 4 to get the lowdown on the new capabilities that will soon be coming to iPhone owners.
Continue reading ‘Why the iPhone may rule the (journalism) world’
Redesign workshop and prototyping sessions with MDP partners.
Training editors for the Media Development Program.
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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