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Video: Why is there no daily newspaper in a city of six million people?

This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.

I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .

Mish mush kella, we used the daily tasks as a customized lesson for each day of the workshop.

The journalists worked in two teams on locations around Egypt’s second-largest city with the goal of interviewing a wide range of people. The film project is presented here entirely in Arabic language. (An English-language dub may be available later in 2009)

Over the course of four days the reporters received daily instruction in the fundamentals of video journalism by the director and were given daily filming assignments to produce the reporting for this documentary.

This film was made during a video journalism training workshop sponsored by USAID and the Egypt Media Develpment Project.

The movie was first screened at the Bibliotech Library in Alexandria for an international journalism conference that was organized by the Media Development Project.
The conference theme was focused on how to produce better local media and reporting in the Arab world.

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Magazine design at Cairo University


Today I taught a magazine design at Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication and in the afternoon returned to finish the last day of my four day design workshop at the Supreme Press Council.

It’s been an adventurous 30 days in Egypt training student and professional journalists under the Media Development Program.

Below are some photo slideshows from my video and design classes conducted in Alexandria and Cairo.

Design workshop the Supreme Press Council in Cairo

Egypt: Press Syndicate design and redesign workshop


Teaching magazine design at Cairo University


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Alexandria Video Journalism Workshop


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Making movies in Alexandria, Egypt


Making movies in Alexandria Egypt

The view from my room overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. I am here working with 12 budding filmmakers who will report a video documentary about the state of daily newspapers in this city of six million people.

A slideshow from Day one.

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