Hyderabad: Below is a slideshow of photos from the start of a two day newspaper design and redesign workshop in Hyderabad, India. These photos were taken by my host V Antony, Business development manager of IFRA India. Antony’s background is in prepress - so hat’s off to him for making some nice documentary images.
The sold out training event brought together editors and designers from Singapore, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and their interest in gaining knowledge is great.
Robb will be directing the production of a news documentary about the state of newspapers and readers in Alexandria, Egypt with a team of eight student videographers and reporters. the project is under the direction of the Media Development Project (A USAID sponsored training and development group)
The central question is “Why doesn’t Alexandria have local newspapers?”
The film will be shot and edited on location in Alexandria, the city of ancient scholarship with historic contributions to the written word and the one-time repository of all human knowledge.
The new design for The Examiner has been steadily making its way into the existing editions (Washington and San Francisco) since mid-February. Quietly, without the usual brass bands and reader trauma. Compared to recent flashy redesigns, The Examiner represents a kind of un-design ‘ redesign’ — the goals we developed were based on a core desire to produce an upscale daily news tabloid that works hard to provide daily intelligence in a magazine-style form. A free tabloid with an upmarket quality standard is a first for a daily in the U.S.
What this also meant is we weren’t going to be designing a paper that relies on gimmicks to be noticed. All that matters is that the new design reveal the character of the new Examiner — smart, interesting and relevant to your life today.
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.
