🚀 Author, Mobile Journalism textbook
🎬 Director, Smart Film School in Berlin
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Robb Montgomery is an American journalism educator, visual media anthropologist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. His work focuses on practical and ethical approaches to visual storytelling, with an emphasis on mobile journalism, audience trust, and immersive reporting.
Montgomery teaches and designs applied media curricula for universities and professional programs worldwide. He is a regular visiting professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) in Singapore, where he teaches annually in RUSS Media programs and is open to additional visiting appointments. Since 2003, he has led workshops and seminars at institutions including FH Wien School of Journalism, Stockholm University, Ohio University, the Danish School of Journalism, EFJ in Paris, Cairo University, Northwestern University, and The Media School at Indiana University. He trains students and faculty in broadcast and digital storytelling through mobile, spatial, and AI-assisted workflows shaped by investigative journalism and documentary film practice.
His research in visual media anthropology, including peer-reviewed work on virtual intimacy and spatial ethnography, informs both his teaching and field practice. He is also an active trainer for frontline journalists, including mobile journalism workshops for reporters working in displacement and conflict settings during the war in Ukraine.
A former visual editor and Deputy News Editor for Design at the Chicago Sun-Times, Montgomery brings more than four decades of newsroom experience into the classroom. His documentary films, including Sophie Sutton and Ice Swimming, have received Best Documentary honors at international festivals.
He founded the Mobile Journalism Awards and runs an annual mojo workshop at BEA. He is also the founder of the Smart Film School and the author of widely used textbooks, including Smartphone Video Storytelling (Routledge), The Trust Graph, and Mobile Journalism Creator.
BOOKS
The Trust Graph: An Ethnography of Journalism Rituals and Verification in the Age of AI and News Creators (2026, Visual Editors, NFP)
Smartphone Video Storytelling (2018 Taylor & Francis, New York & London)
Videos mit dem Smartphone (2019 dPunkt Verlag – German language edition)
Mobile Journalism Creator (6th edition, Visual Editors, NFP)
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