New media and video journalism
December 5-17, 2010
CAIRO: Robb Montgomery will be producing a series of workshops on digital journalism and multimedia reporting for the Egypt Media Development Program, A USAID-funded project.
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November 8-12, 2010
TBILISI, Georgia: Robb Montgomery will be producing a series of newspaper design workshops for Editors, publishers and designers as part of the IREX program for Media Strengthening.
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A preview scene from the upcoming journalism documentary film “Breaking The News.”
In the first part: Scottish design guru, Ally Palmer talks about the generation gaps between newspaper publishers and youth media consumers.
In the second part, Toronto Star Editor-in-Chief, Michael Cooke talks about the revenue problems and where new opportunities for newspapers come from.
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I’ll be directing a team of German journalism students who will be documenting in video reports and social media from the floor of the 17th World Editors Forum to be held in Hamburg, Germany, from 6 to 8 October 2010.
I have been working with WAN at these events since 2005 where I presented on tabloid design to editors-in-chief and then joined their live blogging desk to file updates from other speakers.
This 2010 version in Hamburg is a must-attend. WAN-IFRA has a fascinating program which focuses on “why mobile distribution will change the news business.”
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- the man who invented the and the super brain behind talks with Charlie Rose for an hour about the next steps he sees for U.S. Newspapers. He prescribes drastic steps to rescue the lions of the old media.
Here’s how this video clip opens up - which is brilliant story craft in its own right.
Charlie Rose:
So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?
Marc Andreessen:
Oh, you got to kill the print edition.
Charlie Rose:
You would stop the presses tomorrow?
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.Continue reading ‘“Stop your presses!” U.S. Newspapers told to write off print.’
Digital-J school:
Learn how to use RSS feeds how to aggregate them using Yahoo! Pipes. PLUS: See how bookmarking and networking with Delicious can improve your digital classroom.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar on online reporting techniques at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Planning Content for Multiple Deadlines, Multiple Platforms
Where does the story start and does it ever end in a Twitter-enabled news world? A two-hour lab exercise where delegates will learn and apply the latest techniques for web-centric planning and reporting.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Making Better Short-Form Video
Discussion of the elements of strong video. Managing and planning for tightly-edited video narratives and lessons from top video journalists.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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What video camera do you use? How should we train reporters to use video? What’s the secret to video on the Web?
Good questions and I attempt to answer them here for my friend, Steve Garfield who has been commissioned to write a book about video journalism and asked me to contribute to a chapter about newspapers using Web video.
Steve’s questions to me are in bold and my answers follow.
1. Why are newspapers training their reporters and photographers to become video producers?
They have observed the sea change with the medium that YouTube ushered in and are catching up to the fact that web video is now a mainstream activity and an affordable form of online journalism. Quite simply that is where the audience is.
Continue reading ‘Eight questions about video journalism and newspapers’
The women behind the World’s Best Designed Newspapers™ from Robb Montgomery on Vimeo.
Las Vegas: Meet two women who have just won World’s Best Designed Newspaper™ honors from the SND competition.
These two editors set a high standard for newspaper design quality and have been on a roll lately winning many top design prizes in Europe and elsewhere.
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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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