New media and video journalism
Visits to the Kremlin, city streets, Metro stations, Moscow State University and an outdoor museum featuring iconic symbols of the former CCCP.
A fun little music video made from behind-the-scenes footage of Robb Montgomery filming scenes in Moscow for the documentary film “Breaking The News.”
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’
Moscow: Robb is judging a journalism contest and meeting clients. (May, 2010)
Robb Montgomery in Moscow.
Continue reading ‘Visual Journalism lecture (Moscow)’
Robb Montgomery will present a three day workshop for journalists at Forbes magazine (Axel-Springer, Russia) Jan. 21-23, 2010.
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LAS VEGAS: This an interview I made with the 27-year-old founding editor for Moscow’s youth-oriented Akzia newspaper. Svetlana Maximchenko was in Las Vegas to pick up her award for World’s Best Designed newspaper and also speak at the SND APME congress.buy Trainspotting
Slide from Andrew DeVigal’s SND session in Las Vegas. Andrew is the multimedia editor of The New York Times.
Continue reading ‘SND Las Vegas report: Embracing the social narrative’
A low-cost protoype for video blogcasting� - for newsrooms of any size.
MOSCOW � After talking with editors and publishers at The World Newspaper Congress I came away with the distinct insight that these two themes (small screens, sticky content) will define the new demands for effective digital delivery. From PSPs to iPods, mobile phones to PDA’s - it’s a world of small, mobile screens and a news audience with fussy attention spans that news providers must learn how to serve better.
Continue reading ‘Newspaper VIDEO: Small screens and sticky content’
Video spontaneously taken with a small digital camera on location from Kolomenskoye, the 17th century summer residence of the Russian Tsars. One of 10 videos Robb directed in Moscow for the World Newspaper Congress.
This is an excerpt of a live music perfromance from the dinner reception for editors and publishers at the beautiful park overlooking Moscow.
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.
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