Visual Editors

Mobile field test with the iRig Pro

Quick and dirty vocal field test of the iRig Pro with the Rode NTG-1 mic and Shure VP64AL. iPhone 4 and FiRE audio app. No post processing, no editing. More details in the review: http://j.mp/iRigPro

Camp VJ Berlin

Video journalists film and interview people at The Jewish Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie, River Spree, Brandenburg Gate, and the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany. Cast: Robb Montgomery Tags: video journalism , web tv , training , cutting video , akademie , robb montgomery , visual editors , camp vj , reichstag , Checkpoint Charlie and Brandenburg Tor...

Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago's Carol Marin

Chicago TV journalist and Chicago Sun-Times political columnist, Carol Marin, answers questions from Camp VJ Chicago students about interviewing techniques for video reports. Cast: Robb Montgomery Tags: campvj , chicago , class , interview , tips , training , video , sun-times , carol marin , newspapers , multimedia , video editing and interviewing...

John H. White on video journalism

John H. White, who is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times talks about video storytelling during a Camp Video Journalism workshop produced by Visual Editors. Cast: Robb Montgomery Tags: john white , video , newspapers , journalism , chicago , pulitzer , sun-times and john h. white...

Camp VJ Chicago

Documentary report from the Camp Video Journalism training week held at the Chicago Sun-Times May 5-9, 2008. See student films at Campvj.com Camp Video Journalism upgrades a reporter's skills to meet the demands of the networked journalism era. Camp VJ Chicago students included a Pultizer-Prize winning photographer, newspaper reporters, broadcast professionals and the director of a major U.S. Journalism school. The game has changed for media makers and journalists need focused and practical vide...

Small cameras can tell big stories

Robb Montgomery reporting from Niagara Falls, Canada. The ability to tell really big stories with really small cameras is something that is fascinating to share with colleagues. I work with editors-in-chief and their staff in many newsrooms and classrooms around the world to develop training and design new workflows and the challenge is to not only raise the quantity, the number of videos a newsroom is able to post online, but the quality of those stories as well. Web video is an incredibly rich...

GÖTEBORG: Video tour of the Expo floor

Vendors talk about the business they do at the World Newspaper Congress in this short film.

GÖTEBORG: Editors discuss impact of the Integrated Newsroom (Part two video)

Editors throughout the conference discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the digital revolution of the newsrooms. The integrated newsroom was much talked about at the 15th World Editor's Forum. Being the "must-do" idea of 2007, some newspapers still haven't made the transition to combining print with digital media. Lisbeth Knudsen from Danish Berlingske Tidende gave her opinion as to why and how editors need to go interactive. More video reports from the World Editors ...

GÖTEBORG: 2007 – 2008 print and online launches (VIDEO)

GÖTEBORG: 2007 – 2008 print and online launches World Editors Forum - SEVENTH SESSION With : Gianni Valenti, Deputy Editor, Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, Mint, India Ignacio Escolar, Editor-in-Chief, Publico, Spain Pierre Haski, Founder and Editor in Chief, Rue89.com, France Dominic Young, Director of Editorial Services, Intellectual Property, News International Ltd, UK Chairman: Roy Greenslade, Media Columnist, The Guardian, UK More video reports from t...

GÖTEBORG: Digital media training for the new newsroom

World Editors Forum - FIFTH SESSION The digital age has reached the newsroom, but are the journalists ready for it? Editors and directors talk about how to train journalists and keep them up to date for video, e-consulting and cultural change. More video reports from the World Editors Forum...

GÖTEBORG: EXTENDED VIDEO - Garry Kasparov challenges Russian press freedoms at World Editors Forum in Sweden

UPDATE: The longer form video interview and lecture with Russia's Garry Kasparov. During his speech Kasparov addressed subjects such as the lack of freedom of the press and the political climate for journalists in today's Russia. According to Garry Kasparov the current situation for the press has made the atmosphere in the newsrooms one of caution. The murders of Russian journalists, such as Anna Politkovskaja, have received great media coverage outside of Russia. But in the domestic m...

GÖTEBORG: Newspaper weekend editions win over weekdays

World Editors Forum - SIXTH SESSION How can weekend editions strengthen the newspapers? Editors Edward Greenspon from Canadian Globe & Mail and Erik Bjerager from Danish Kristeligt Dagblad answer this question and offer ideas for both big and small newspapers. They also discuss why it is so important to have a strong weekend edition. More video reports from the World Editors Forum...

GÖTEBORG: Are mobile news and “mojos” changing journalism? (Video)

World Editors Forum SESSION THREE Paul Cheesbrough, Chief Information Officer, Telegraph Media Group, UK Ilicco Elia, Product Manager - Mobile & Emerging Media, Reuters, UK Michael Cooper, Director of Advanced Reading Technologies, Microsoft, USA Oscar Westlund, Doctoral Student, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Chairman: Robert Andrews, Editor-in-Chief, paidContent.UK, United Kingdom...

GÖTEBORG: The hyper-local news model: a solution for print and online

FOURTH SESSION Hyper-local projects have been launched by Östersunds Posten and Helsingin Sanomat. Editors from these newspapers talk about how they made their ideas work and about the future of user-generated content. They both believe in having their users decide about their media content....

GÖTEBORG: Garry Kasparov challenges Russian press freedoms at World Editors Forum in Sweden

At the 15th World Editor's Forum Garry Kasparov was the guest speaker of the second editor's lunch. He spoke on different subjects, such as the lack of freedom of speech in today's Russia, the political climate for journalists and foreign countries interfering in Russian politics. Although he got mostly applause for his outspoken opinions, his fellow countrymen presented some severe criticism. In the end, the russian president of the Press Guild, Eugene Abou, promised Kasparov an ...

GÖTEBORG: Are integrated newsrooms really working?

Second Session from the World Editors Forum - VIDEO With : Javier Moreno, Editor-in-Chief, El Pais, Spain Jim Roberts, Editor of Digital News, The New York Times, USA Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO, Det Berlingske Officin, and Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark Almar Latour, Managing Editor, wsj.com, Wall Street Journal, USA Svetlana Mironyuk, Editor-in-Chief, RIA Novosti, Russia Chairman: Bruno Patino, President, Le Monde Interactif, France...

GÖTEBORG: Great challenges faces the printed newspapers

According to Timothy Balding, CEO of WAN, newspapers in a global perspective are doing well, contrary to trends in specific regions like North America and parts of Europe. Print as a distribution form is losing ground to new digital media, especially in the Western World. Congress and Forum speakers and guests of the 15th World Editors Forum share what they think the future holds for printed newspapers....

GÖTEBORG: Will Web 2.0 give birth to Journalism 2.0?

Nikesh Arora, President EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google Inc., UK, presented participants at the 15th World Editors Forum with food for thought as to the way in which the media consumption habits and the media landscape in general have radically transformed with Web 2.0. Arora opened the Forum's first session, entitled "Will Web 2.0 give birth to Journalism 2.0?" Other panelists: Kathleen Carroll, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, The Associated Press, USA Pi...

GÖTEBORG: WAN awards Golden Pen to jailed Chinese journalist in emotional ceremony

Chinese journalists suffering under sever press freedoms are honored in the Golden Pen ceremony at the opening ceremonies of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Student journalist teams from JMG University of Gothenburg are reporting in blogs, interviews and a range of video stories from the annual meeting of the World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum. More of their reports are online at The Editors Weblog...

GÖTEBORG: Survey results from World Editors Forum - Introduction session

A video vox pop summary from the kick off to the World Editors Forum conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Student journalist teams from JMG University of Gothenburg are reporting in blogs, interviews and a range of video stories from the annual meeting of the World Association of Newspapers. More of their reports are online at The Editors Weblog...

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GÖTEBORG: Editors-in-chief breakfast

Sweden: At the first day of the World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, editors-in-chief of newspapers from all over the world were gathered for an intimate welcome breakfast. Peter Hjörne, editor-in-chief for the opinion and editorial pages of the local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, held an affectionate welcome speach. The 15th World Editors Forum and congress has gathered 1,800 participants from 130 countries in Gothenburg. Blogs and more video reports from the congress can be found online ...

GÖTEBORG: Editors discuss press freedom, digital media at World Editors Forum in Sweden

Sweden: Student journalists report in video from the first day of the World Editors Forum featured three roundtable discussions, one about freedom of the press, new digital platforms and perhaps the biggest challenge for newspapers these days, how can newspapers attract young readers. The 15th World Editors Forum and congress has gathered 1,800 participants from 130 countries in Gothenburg. Blogs and more video reports from the congress can be found online at the Editors Weblog....

Sweden bound: Video sequences of Cairo, Paris, Berlin and Michigan

Robb Montgomery is 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 Robb as he makes a short stop in Berlin with scenes from Paris, Berlin and Cairo to set the stage for the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum....

Paris: A cross-town cab in the rain

CAIRO: Felucca boat sailing in the Nile River at sunset

Video journalism from Egypt. A video vignette of one of the calmer scenes in the exotic chaos of Cairo - a soft wind cruise on the fabled Nile River. Filmed by Robb Montgomery who is teaching innovative journalism techniques to reporters, editors and visual journalists in newsrooms and classrooms around the world. In his most recent visit to Cairo he delivered seminars and training at Ahram Canadian University, an eight-grade class in Sakkar, The Supreme Press Council, Cairo University and in vi...

Report: Video Journalism training in Chicago

Video journalism training - Camp VJ Chicago film by Robb Montgomery

Documentary report from the Camp Video Journalism training week held at the Chicago Sun-Times May 5-9, 2008. Camp Video Journalism upgrades a reporter's skills to meet the demands of the networked journalism era. Camp VJ Chicago students included a Pultizer-Prize winning photographer, newspaper reporters, broadcast professionals and the director of a major U.S. Journalism school. The game has changed media makers and journalists need focused and practical video training that can make a dram...

Camp VJ Chicago: Promo film

Camp VJ: Hands-on training for the next generation of video journalists. More info and student films online: www.campvj.com This promo film was produced by David Dunkley Gyimah from footage taken during the week-long Camp VJ Chicago workshop. David is a U.K. video journalist, the founder of www.viewmagazine.tv and a world-class visual journalist, lecturer and Web pioneer....

Tutorial: Upgrade your portfolio with a few clicks

Use VizEds to host your portfolio pages or video and get a widget to post your work anywhere on the Web. In this 3:46 video, Robb telestrates the powerful portfolio management features on the site.