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Egypt Media (Part 2)

Robb will return to the Media Development project to train Egyptian journalists and develop mobile media strategies with publishers.

The Egypt Media Development offices in Cairo are run by IREX and MSI with a grant from USAID.

Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.

Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.

Egypt Media (Part 2)
Cairo, Egypt
June 10 — 25, 2010

Egypt Media (Part 1)

Robb will return to the Media Development project to train Egyptian journalists and develop mobile media strategies with publishers.

The Egypt Media Development offices in Cairo are run by IREX and MSI with a grant from USAID.

Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.

Robb Montgomery trains Egyptian journalists in Cairo. Media Development is a USAID funded project.

Egypt Media (Part 1)
Cairo, Egypt
May 29, 2010June 4, 2010

Cairo: 3 weeks of multimedia workshops for journalists

Robb Montgomery poses with Egypt Media Development Program colleagues during the filming of a documentary they produced together in 2009.

CAIRO - Feb. 14 to March 4, 2010:

I am heading back to Egypt to work for three weeks with the Egypt Media Development Program and the schedule they have prepared is jam-packed with training and consulting visits with journalists from Egypt’s top media houses.

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Multimedia workshops (Cairo)

Robb Montgomery poses with Egypt Media Development Program colleagues during the filming of a documentary they produced together in 2009.

CAIRO - Feb. 14 to March 4, 2010:

I am heading back to Egypt to work for three weeks with the Egypt Media Development Program and the schedule they have prepared is jam-packed with training and consulting visits with journalists from Egypt’s top media houses.

Continue reading ‘Multimedia workshops (Cairo)’

Multimedia workshops (Cairo)
Cairo, Egypt
February 14, 2010March 4, 2010

Filming new journalism documentary films in Egypt

Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.

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.


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Multimedia training (EGYPT)

CAIRO: The Supremem Press council opens their new multi-million dollar training center and the Egypt Media Development program’s training consultant, Robb Montgomery, will return to Egypt to open the venue. Montgomery was the first journalist/trainer to train Egyptian journalists at the start of the project.

Montgomery will also be making a new film documentary about all of the training centers and also produce sessions for the Egypt Media Development Program where he will be training the trainers in social media and visual media techniques.