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Web Multimedia Workshop (Harrisburg)

Everyday Multimedia: Visual Reporting

Tips for beefing up storytelling for reporters, editors and managers!

Join Robb Montgomery as he teaches multimedia reporting techniques that you can use immediately to attract and inform online readers. Learn how to use your digital camera or mobile phone as your reporter’s notebook.

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Web Multimedia Workshop (Harrisburg)
harrisburg, pa
October 09 — 09, 2009

Private training in newsrooms (Pennsylvania)

I will be working with Pennsylvania Newspaper Association member papers again for a week of personalized consulting and training visits.

July 22-28, 2009

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Private training in newsrooms (Pennsylvania)
harrisburg, pa
July 20 — 24, 2009

Multimedia reporting tools at America East in Hershey

Just added a new seminar for Pennsylvania newspaper editors.

“Breaking the Entry Barriers to Online – A Tool Kit” to the schedule. Please join me on Monday, April 6 from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. at the America East convention in Hershey, PA. for this session.

Last year I worked with Time.com’s Craig Duff to deliver a series of video workshops at America East. America East is a huge newspaper exhibition and conference and attracts top speakers and delegates from all over the country.

I can’t wait to get back to Hershey and work with Pennsylvania editors again. This is the first trip of many that I will be making to the state in 2009. I will be producing at least four more training events in Harrisburg and visiting up to a dozen newspapers this year for private consults and coaching for their multimedia initiatives. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work!

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Seminar: How to use free or low-cost Web services to enhance your paper's online reporting and multimedia efforts

How to use free or low-cost Web services to enhance your paper’s online reporting and multimedia efforts.

The latest innovations and tools for everyday multimedia and web reporting. From sourcing, to podcasting, to Google map mashups - engage your journalists and communities with the latest tools and techniques.”
There is so much more that newspapers can do to commit acts of journalism with free or nearly free Web services. Google maps, Del.icio.us, Plazes, RSS feeds, Flickr slideshows, mobile podcasts and more. Robb will update the editors with a tour and live demonstrations of practical real-time Web reporting techniques that will enrich your everyday digital journalism.

It’s a great and popular topic that gets real results.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation.

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Hershey: Web Video and audio master classes

March 10-12 - AMERICA EAST - Video and audio master classes

Video: Beyond the Basics (Two-day advanced master class) March 10-11
Instructors: Craig Dufff and Robb Montgomery

    - Advanced camera techniques — “Getting out of auto mode for better results”
    - Getting the Sequence - Gathering enough of the right images to let the story tell itself.
    - Running and Gunning - strategies for getting video images when things are moving fast
    - The video interview - what makes a good video interview different from print
    - Story structure - moving past the pyramid: how best to structure a video segment.
    - Trade Secrets - 10 helpful tricks of the video trade that come in handy when doing multi-platform reporting.

Audio: Getting great sound for video and podcasts (One day intro master class) March 12
Instructor: Robb Montgomery
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Song about my new life: "Paperwork"

Here’s a little dittie for a sunny Sunday afternoon


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