Newspaper design, visual journalism, and documentary video
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.
Video of Robb speaking by
Still frame photos by Waldemar Kompała, Gazetta.pl
Thanks for the art!
CMYK at Al-Haram in Cairo, Egypt
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.
I have been living many time zones ahead of normal since 31 January.
Here are some other street scene images I documented today while traveling between Cairo University and the Al-Akbar newspaper offices for on-site consultation visits.
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 picture with incorrect caption information provided by the batch upload.
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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