New media and video journalism
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.
This just in: The World Association of Newspapers has decided to postpone its World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, scheduled to be held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 25 March, until December, due to the impact of the global financial downturn on newspaper companies.
I was scheduled to present at the World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India in March and I guess I am not surprised that the event will be delayed. For the past few years I have also directed teams of video journalists who file daily reports from the congress and I really love working these events. I often describe them as the Olympics of journalism meetups. The host country’s president usually opens the congress and the delegates are all publishers, owners or editors-in-chief. A fascinating group of global media decision-makers.
WAN usually holds these congresses in June and this one was going on a fast-track nine month plan that has been slowed down due to the global economic crisis.
Continue reading ‘WAN Postpones Annual Congress, Editors Forum’
I am in Sweden leading a team of student VJs who will produce video reports in Gothenborg at the World Editors Forum. This film catches up with me as I make a short stop in Berlin. Includes scenes from recent stops in Paris, Berlin and Cairo and sets the stage for the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum taking place in Goteborg. There are over 1,800 participants from 130 countries meeting here for the congress.
More videos from the Congress and editors forum
Continue reading ‘Sweden bound: Video sequences of Cairo, Paris, Berlin and Michigan’
The integrated newsroom: why, how and when
Robb will be at the World editors Forum in Göteborg, Sweden, 1 - 4 June 2008 producing video documentary projects.
All Forum sessions take place at Svenska Mässan (The Göteborg Convention Centre), Mässans Gata 20, Göteborg
More information about the program.
Video spontaneously taken with a small digital camera on location from Kolomenskoye, the 17th century summer residence of the Russian Tsars. One of 10 videos Robb directed in Moscow for the World Newspaper Congress.
This is an excerpt of a live music perfromance from the dinner reception for editors and publishers at the beautiful park overlooking Moscow.
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.
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