New media and video journalism
CAIRO: I am working in Cairo for the next three weeks leading a number of training initiatives for working journalists and journalism faculty. Today I began the first course. A video and multimedia journalism workshop at Cairo University. I develop visual and multimedia training events for the Egypt Media Development Program in Cairo and this week my students are journalism school faculty and working reporters from several of Egypt’s top newspapers.
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.
I passed around my cameras and recorders and favorite Web sites for producing Web graphics reports and fielded some great feedback from the participants. It is so much fun to turn the classroom into a big conversation and live demonstration. I really enjoy having to think fast and take the lead from the delegates questions.
So many great enquiries that will make it into a future post as I teach more seminars about multimedia reporting. It’s been a popular topic this year as I have taught it from Vancouver to Berlin.
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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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