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Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can

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.

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Interviewing Mario Garcia, Ph.D. in Prague

A few weeks ago I interviewed Mario Garcia, Ph.D. in Prague for the feature-length documentary film project I am producing. I have filmed many interviews over the last two years that document this historic moment in journalism history.

Mario Garcia talks with filmmaker Robb Montgomery for his documentary film project about journalism in transition.

Mario Garcia talks with Robb Montgomery for his documentary film project about journalism in transition.


I am making parts of this film while I have the opportunities to witness these changes up close.

Martha Stone of Shaping the Future of News asked me to share some excerpts from Mario’s interview on a big screen next month at the WAN-IFRA congress in Hyderabad, India.

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Visit the future of journalism - the 2015 newsroom in Prague

The 10 week new media training tour depart soon and will feature a two day visit to the site of journalism’s most provocative new publishing experiment - FUTUROOM - in the Czech Republic.

This map mashup details the 10-week-long “New Media Training Tour” that starts in Norman Oklahoma this week and ends with a splash in the Red Sea the first week of December. In between there are training stops in London, Toronto, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Harrisburg, Cairo, and Berlin.

I will try to blog some of the highlights from the road, but would never attempt to compete with Charles Apple’s excellent blow-by-blow reportage from his recent trip to Cape Town.
I tend to make short documentary films, Annotated still photo slideshows and Google map mashups to take readers along with me.

After the Sept 25-26 APME Newstrain workshop in Oklahoma I will finally be seeing much more about a new working model for journalism and newsroom structure at the FUTUROOM in Prague, Czech Republic on the 1st & 2nd October 2009.

I have worked as a consultant to FUTUROOM this year and finally we can show our colleagues a new model for journalism that inverts many of the dynamics of production and community engagement.
It’s a fast trip over there and then quickly back to Toronto.

But, before leave Prague, I will also deliver a new presentation on visual literacy and managing multiple narratives for visiting editors in-chief from European media houses.

I’ll join fellow design and visual narrative colleagues Mario R. Garcia, Ph.D. and Jördis Guzmán-Bulla in the Second Session.
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Visual Journalism at Newsroom 2015 Conference (Prague)

October 1-2: I will return to Prague to join two visual journalism greats at a new WAN-IFRA conference called Newsroom 2015.
Welt am Sonntag’s Jördis Guzmán-Bulla and Mario Garcia and I have been asked to produce a session on visual journalism.

The World Editors Forum (Which I have worked with every years since 2005) is engineering the global newspaper industry’s first high quality, low cost conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 1-2 October 2009. With five super-informative session and two expert panels, the Newsroom 2015 Conference will deliver many practical money saving ideas to help your newsroom achieve its goals in the digital age.

Join us as we learn about:
- strategies for and the future of online revenues with Google News
- how the real time Web is transforming journalism with strategies from Twitter
- how Editors-in-Chief are optimising their newsroom workflow with Verdans Gang
- why developing niche information is so important with Netvibes
- how to enhance stories with visual journalism and interactive graphics

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Design consulting in Prague

I will be a World Editors forum on-site consultant for two days in Prague working with John Burke, Martha Stone, Bertrand Pecquerie and Francois Nel.

We are brainstorming ideas for a new international multimedia training center for journalists and guiding plans for the launch of dozens of new newspapers for the Czech readers.

Design consulting in Prague
Prague
March 19 — 20, 2009