CAIRO: View of a church and satellite dish packed rooftops taken from the 20th floor of the Marriott Hotel on the island of Zamalek (Also known as al guezirah)
I uploaded this photo to a set that included photos from the bazaar in old Cairo. I batch uploaded it and the caption said this was on Moez Ledeen Ellah Street - which it was clearly not.
Another flickr user pointed this out in a comment and I got better information about what the scene was really showing. So I used it.
Ah, indeed a miracle, the correctable journalist!
Before
Before picture with incorrect caption information provided by the batch upload.
Moez Ledeen Ellah Street MDP’s Tarek Atia and Viewmagazine.tv’s David Dunkley Gyimah interview a shop owner.
CAIRO: I am working in Egypt this week for the Media Development Project and we are training the country’s journalists about the concepts and practice of visual editing, newspaper design and multimedia.
I am joined by David Dunkley Gyimah of viewmagazine.tv and yesterday we made a self-assignment that will be used in our training. We decided to join forces and go into Old Cairo as stealthily as possible and coordinate our efforts as a “two-camera producing pod” to find and tell a story for an online audience.
David carried his HDV video camera and I carried my point and shoot hybrid and field audio recorder and we have already produced several multimedia story components, interviews and footage that will be used online a number of different ways.
I concentrated on documenting the making of David’s film and field edit process in hopes of leaving behind a tuturial for the Egyptians and anyone who wants to know more about being how to do multimedia in the field.
Soon, I’ll toss up more of our finished pieces as they get completed. We have been without reliable internet access for two days and I am suffering from a full-on head cold. I spent the day today working hands on with designers and editors at al-msaaeya newspaper.
We have a conference we are presenting at tomorrow
We blog when we have the chance - and will be a lot to share - The next item will be called ‘Technique, not technology,’ please stay tuned.
Robb Montgomery is the CEO of Visual Editors and an independent consultant.
He has worked as a visual editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and partners with media groups and journalism associations in more than 16 countries to design training curriculum for video journalism, newspaper design and multimedia reporting.
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