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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Screenshot from Robb's new presentation on Visual Journalism: Evolution of the narrative
In this session, editors will learn presentation methods beyond the linear narrative. Discover alternate story forms and more visual approaches to make information easy for readers to comprehend. Also see techniques that embrace more Web-centric, community-driven presentations.
Understanding different story forms will help you to assign stories to writers in more meaningful ways. The session will use attendee’s publications as visual aids.
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Robb Montgomery in Moscow.
I’ll be presenting a lecture on visual journalism at the sixth Russian news design conference in Moscow Oct.31-Nov. 1
I have been invited to speak about non-narrative journalism techniques at the 16th World Editors Forum to be held next March in Hyderabad, India.
This will be my fifth consecutive WAN/WEF event and my second as a presenter. I will also be directing a team of video journalists to produce daily reports just like I have done for the Editors Forum in 2006 in Moscow, in 2007 in Cape Town and in 2008 in Sweden. More details on that will come, but I am delighted to again be sharing the stage with a couple of world-class visual journalists. Alberto gave a great graphics presentation at a Paris event I attended in June and Joerdis presented on adventure mobile journalism and advanced graphics at SND Las Vegas.
Sixth Session (14H30 – 15H30)
Visual journalism: the rise of infographics and non narrative news
Newspaper design and infographics are more and more important in an increasingly visual world. Participants will learn from the best examples of 2008’s print and online redesigns and get an in-depth look at the best in non-narrative news.
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He does a tremendous job
Robb does a great job of talking to and working with college students. He is at the forefront of his craft in both newspaper design and online news. His multi-media presentations are educational, entertaining and informative. He has no trouble keeping students’ attention, and he usually wow’s them with his work. I’d highly recommend Robb to be a keynote speaker or to lead a session on just about anything at a conference. He does a tremendous job.
John Ryan
Professor/director of student publications
Eastern Illinois University
