Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.
Cairo: This week I am producing a new documentary film about the Egypt Media Development Program (A USAID funded initiative) with budding MDP filmmakers Ahmed and Amr. These guys are great. Ahmed and I have made two Arabic-language film documentaries in the last year and we have time to make this new one really high quality.
In the first week we have made a half dozen interviews with journalists that MDP has trained and we filmed on locations all around Cairo. We have visited the offices of the news training centers for journalists the program has established at MENA, Al Ahram Al Akbar, Cairo University and other news organizations. We have done interviews in the streets and at sunrise this morning we filmed some new footage from the Pyramids. We were buzzed by huge military aircraft flying at low altitude. Have to wait for the film to be ingested to see how it came out but here re a few snaps from my trusty LX-2 which has joined me on my adventures the last four years.
This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
What Facebook's revised terms of use mean for your content
“You are granting Facebook a pretty broad license to use your content that cannot be revoked, is perpetual (it never expires) and if they use your material you cannot claim any kind of royalty or fee. The new terms are worldwide.
It is not just the user content that you post but also your name, your likeness and your image to be used for any purpose including commercial or advertising uses.”
I travelled downtown Chicago today to hand-deliver my visa application to the Indian Consulate so that I may visit Hyderabad in a couple weeks and I had a couple of hours to kill before catching the Metra train back to Naperville.
I walked around Grant Park (See my annotated map above) (and I do mean AROUND as there was no ordinary privilege to pass through as a pedestrian today) with all the cops and fencing up already for the Obama Presidential Rally. That is the official name today of this venue formerly known as Grant Park. TV satellite trucks have long queued up on Columbus Drive and the ticketed and non-ticketed patron areas are clearly defined and defended.
Vancouver, Calgary and Prince George on Thursday, Friday and Saturday . . . But first, some ski and mountain time to recharge the batteries.
Just sharing a few snaps - more images should be added to the slideshow in the coming days - if not, please send a search and rescue team to look for me!
The tiles in the floor of the pre-press room at Al-Haram newspaper offices in Cairo, Egypt.
I spent four hours last night documenting and filming at the offices of Al-Haram shadowing the deputy editor as he closes the paper and edits the front page between editions with his night crew. I left at 1 a.m., the editor in charge left two hours later.
I have shot video clips to also let you see what it is like to work on the front page at Egypt’s largest-circulation paid daily newspaper. So stay tuned . . . I am flying back to Chicago in a few hours and it may take a week or so to recalibrate my senses. Continue reading ‘CMYK at Al-Haram in Cairo, Egypt’
I finally have edited down the photos to post here on the blog from my holiday last week. I have been on the road since November 14 when I left Chicago for Dehli, India. It was nice to unplug the laptop and have a few days of extreme camping.
Trek along with me and see a fascinating desert few Western tourists ever get to visit. Everywhere there are fossils and evidence of an ancient sea that once teemed here. shells, petrified coral, sea vent volcanos and amazing skies.
Warsaw:
A quick-turnaround video and slideshow from today’s talks in Warsaw with publishers and editors at the PressForum conference.
The focus for today was to illustrate strategies for launching and relaunching print titles in tabloid format at PressForum, the gathering of Poland’s magazine and newspaper press.
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.
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.
