I am still buzzing from the energy of the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai. The shift is no longer a prediction; it is our reality. The “industrial-age’ newsroom is being challenged by agile, niche, and highly-trusted News Creators. If you are ready to lead this transition in your newsroom or classroom, let’s talk. I […]
News Creator Journalism in 2026: What Educators Need to Know
What I’m Learning as a journalism creator professor I’ve been reflecting on how creator journalism is moving from experiment to mainstream—one in three journalists now build independent practices. “Report: The Rise of the Creator-Journalist,” published by the Video Consortium in collaboration with Project C and Fordham University is out. This study examines how independent video […]
Mobile Journalism – University Textbook
The 2025 University Edition of the Mobile Journalism is the preferred set text for professors teaching courses in smartphone video production, mobile journalism, digital marketing, broadcast reporting, and mobile filmmaking.
MOJO workshop at BEA Las Vegas
Mobile Journalism workshop at the Broadcast Education Association By Robb Montgomery Here are the primary resources, frameworks, and digital repositories shared during our Saturday workshop exploring “The Journalist as Cultural Steward: Kinetic Ethnography and Mobile Storytelling”. The Trust Graph A 19 year longitudinal visual ethnography and 40,000 word academic monograph documenting the structural collapse of […]
The Trust Graph – Journalism’s New Era
The Trust Graph: An Ethnography of Journalism Rituals and Verification in the Age of AI and News Creators Published by Visual Editors, NFP ISBN: 978-0-9903502-4-8. LCCN: 2026906983. In an information ecosystem flooded with zero-cost synthetic content, the traditional newsroom has collapsed. The Trust Graph delivers a definitive 19-year longitudinal visual ethnography documenting this profound metamorphosis. […]
The Los Angeles Residency: Bringing the 2026 Mobile Journalism Framework to the USA
After another incredible year of teaching at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), I am packing up my mobile kits and heading to the West Coast. From April through June 2026, I will be based in Los Angeles. This three-month residency is a unique window for me to reconnect with U.S.-based newsrooms, journalism programs, […]
We Didn’t Build the Internet for Bots. Can Berlin’s Wedium Undo Social Media’s Original Sin?
I’ve been thinking about the Original Sin of social media lately. A new project spinning up here in Berlin has me revisiting why I built Visual Editors back in 2004—the first social network for visual journalists. Back then, we were idealists who believed connecting pros in a digital Commons would naturally create signal over noise. […]
Content for Good: News Creator takeaways from Dubai’s 1 Billion Followers Summit
Trust is tops for creators This week at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai, one theme kept surfacing in nearly every discussion I heard: content needs a purpose beyond views. As creators, educators, and media entrepreneurs, we are being pushed—by platforms, by audiences, and by our own consciences—toward impact, not just impressions. #NewsCreators see […]