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Hamburg: World Editors Forum

I’ll be directing a team of German journalism students who will be documenting in video reports and social media from the floor of the 17th World Editors Forum to be held in Hamburg, Germany, from 6 to 8 October 2010.

I have been working with WAN at these events since 2005 where I presented on tabloid design to editors-in-chief and then joined their live blogging desk to file updates from other speakers.

This 2010 version in Hamburg is a must-attend. WAN-IFRA has a fascinating program which focuses on “why mobile distribution will change the news business.”

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Hamburg: World Editors Forum
Hamburg, Germany
October 06 — 08, 2010

Visit the future of journalism - the 2015 newsroom in Prague

The 10 week new media training tour depart soon and will feature a two day visit to the site of journalism’s most provocative new publishing experiment - FUTUROOM - in the Czech Republic.

This map mashup details the 10-week-long “New Media Training Tour” that starts in Norman Oklahoma this week and ends with a splash in the Red Sea the first week of December. In between there are training stops in London, Toronto, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Harrisburg, Cairo, and Berlin.

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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Twitter for Journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar

Not sure how best to use Twitter for your newsroom or for yourself? You may want to register for this new Twitter Webinar I have just designed for the Paris-based World Editors Forum.

I, naturally, just tweeted the details but for those who follow this blog instead of @robbmontgomery the details, cost and links are included here.

Twitter for journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar

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Design consulting in Prague

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.

Design consulting in Prague
Prague
March 19 — 20, 2009

WAN Postpones Annual Congress, Editors Forum

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.

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Hyderabad, India: World Editors Forum (Visual Editing lecture)

India
India

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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Schedule: Master Classes for Romanian Editors-in-Chief

I am flying to Bucharest today at the invitation of the World Editors Forum to teach two Master Classes at the Executive Media Management Institute.

I really like the structure of these discussions - 20 minute presentation and 70 minute conversation, that’s a great format for an executive audience and my favorite style of teaching.
See the schedule below:
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Top 10 newspaper redesigns and Web site redesigns

With the Tribune newspaper redesigns taking place this summer (Orlando, Chicago, Baltimore, Hartford . . .) and the just-debuted redesign of The Times of London, it might be a good time to share a recently published chapter of the top Newspaper and Newspaper Web site redesigns published by the World Editors Forum - Trends in Newsrooms 2008.

The in-depth report by the World Editors Forum presents the most important developments in today’s newsrooms with detailed case studies of some of the world’s most innovative newsrooms. I was asked to be part of a panel that included world-class editorial design colleagues Ally Palmer (U.K.) , Lucie Lacava (Canada), Jördis Guzmán Bulla (Germany), and Peter Ong (Australia).
We all nominated the top efforts over the 2006-2007 time period and the World Editors forum staff reported, researched further and produced this excellent report.

No telling which of this year’s Trib makeovers might make a future list, but as you can see - the world standard for excellence in newspapers is very high - both for original content and consistently excellent presentation, page-to-page.

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Bertrand Pecquerie — World Editors Forum (Paris)

Many roles in working with the World Editors Forum

I invited Robb in 2005 to the 12th World Editors Forum in Seoul to speak about design issues. He was also so involved in new media issues that I decided to work with him at different occasions: as a producer, as a trainer, as an adviser … For the World Editors Forum and for some of our partners.

Robb is very curious and understands very quickly what you expect. His solutions are always original and efficient.

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Interviews with Bill Keller, Desmond Tutu and video tour of Table Mountain

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Time to get to work

It’s the eve of the World Editors Forum in Cape Town and I have been again partnered with forum organizers produce interviews with Desmond Tutu, Bill Keller of The New York Times and Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon. Continue reading ‘Interviews with Bill Keller, Desmond Tutu and video tour of Table Mountain’