
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’
New media and video journalism

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’
I’ll be presenting “Web Video is Not Television!” at the IFRA International Conference “Design for newspapers and magazines” in Paris.
The event will place at the Executive Briefing Center Apple in Paris on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 May.
This event will be a unique occasion that will bring together those who
are confronted by the demands of newspaper design on a daily basis…
Topics include:
- Best newspapers and magazines design experiences worldtour ;
- How design for the web differs from print design?
- Videos connecting with the online audience ;
- Good web quality practice applied to design ;
- Motion design ;
- New trends in print, web and video design.
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Join me at APME NewsTrain in St. Louis on March 6-8 for three days of video and multimedia training.
APME/NewsTrain - St. Louis
At-a-glance:
Continue reading ‘Managing multimedia @APME NewsTrain’
The Society of News Design ends the year with a top 10 list of the big efforts in 2008.
Here’s a wee summary I hacked up in Yahoo! Pipes.
Click on any story link to read the full text on SND’s Update Web site.
I hope they consider publishing this great collection of analysis and review material in print.
Nice job to all the authors! Continue reading ‘Trends in news design: SND looks back at 2008′
Training journalists in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Croatia and Egypt
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The February work tour is now booked solid - the latest stop - Rome - comes after an offer to teach multimedia skills to print and broadcast reporters who cover the Vatican.
Was going to flat-sit for a few days at the Montgomery compound in London between stops in Zagreb and Cairo, but now I will be headed to nearby Italy instead.
One thing is for sure - I am going to be updating my Flickr feeds frequently in February.
Continue reading ‘Teaching multimedia journalism in Rome and the Vatican’
I am a little conflicted about the redesign of the Las Vegas Sun Web site.
And boy, as a visual editor, it’s hard not to like a site design that seems un-tethered from the banner ad business model.
Continue reading ‘Redesign: A closer look at Las Vegas Sun.com’
May 12-15 - East Lansing, Michigan
Michigan State University School of Journalism.
Private training for journalism professor: Web video and digital multimedia reporting and editing techniques.
June 25-26
Harrisburg, PA.
Robb Montgomery will lead a two day seminar on multimedia and Web video for 80 front-line editors at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association training lab in Harrisburg P.A.
Details TK. Registration limited to 80 delegates.
April 17
Robb will be training journalists in on multimedia and web reporting techniques in Alberta, Canada.
Private event - invitation only.

March 10-12 - AMERICA EAST - Hershey, Pennsylvania
Video and audio master classes
Video: Beyond the Basics (Two-day advanced master class) March 10-11
Instructors: Craig Dufff and Robb Montgomery
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