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On the set of “Breaking The News”: Cairo and Al Ahram

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I query an editor at the steps of Al Ahram. Egypt's<br /> largest newspaper

My colleague, Ahmed Montasser, is providing simultaneous Arabic to
English translation to me in this moment. He is literally whispering
into my ear as I query an editor at the steps of Al Ahram. Egypt's
largest newspaper

Over the past three weeks I have filmed more than eight key interviews in Toronto, Moscow, Cairo and Alexandria for the journalism documentary, "Breaking The News."

Interviews with editors-in-in chief in Moscow and Alexandria, entrepreneurial journalists at a week-old-online startup in Toronto, and today, the chairman of the board of a 15,000 employee media house in the most populated Arabic country in the world.

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

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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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Lessons from the multimedia training tour: Week two

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on October 8, 2009
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I am starting week two of my three-month training tour and thought I would share what the Toronto Star’s Roger Gillespie and learned about the Toronto Camp VJ Workshop .
It is simply this, it is you guys who spread the word and make the success.

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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New Media seminars at The Toronto Star

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Robb Montgomery
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Join us October 5-7, 2009 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.

Details: http://toronto.eventbrite.com

What will I learn?
WEB REPORTING - Monday, October 5
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, manage a Twitter persona for yourself or your organization and dig into many delicious ways to use social media for research and publishing.

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New Media seminars at The Toronto Star
Toronto, ontario
October 05 — 07, 2009

Multimedia reporting seminars (Toronto)

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I will deliver three sessions on mulitmedia reporting at Wordstock in Toronto, Oct 3. 2009

  • “Twitter for Journalists”
  • “Breaking the Barriers to Multimedia and Social Media Reporting”
  • “Get your audio right and upgrade all of your multimedia”

We will cover the fundamentals of tech and technique all with a veteran journalist’s understanding and expertise in using these tools to produce compelling digital mulit media.

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Multimedia reporting seminars (Toronto)
Toronto, ontario
October 03 — 03, 2009