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Robb Montgomery | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | Eastern Illinois University |
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| Known for | Mobile journalism |
Robb Montgomery (born 1964) is a journalist based in Berlin. He produces prize-winning documentary films with small cameras and is the author of textbooks and certificate courses in mobile journalism.
Montgomery was born in Naperville, Illinois in 1964 and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He began his career as a graphics journalist at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in 1990 after graduating from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in journalism. He held a number of editorial management positions at Pulitzer-Prize winning newspapers in Florida and Illinois between 1990 and 2005.
Mobile Journalism [1]
(2020-2024, Visual Editors, Chicago)
Smartphone Video Storytelling [2]
(2018, Taylor & Francis, New York & London)
Video mit dem Smartphone [3]
(2019, dPunkt Verlag - German language edition)
Montgomery is the author of the Mobile Journalism textbook [4] and has trained more than 30,000 people in mobile journalism methods including reporters in Europe, Asia, Canada, U.K. Scandinavia, the Middle East, India, and the USA.
Since 2007, he has worked with USAID-funded Media Development projects in Egypt and Georgia and developed and produced multimedia training, mobile and digital journalism workshops in more than 22 countries.
in 2023 he led mobile journalism training workshops [5] for journalists in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion by Russia.
In 2011, he pioneered the mobile journalism strategy, training and workflows for Radio Free Europe - the first international broadcaster to train their entire staff in mobile journalism methods and also to outfit journalists with a custom mobile reporting app that Montgomery designed.
As the author and concept designer of the IREX S.M.A.R.T. Media Lab and mobile-first newsroom center in Tbilisi, Georgia, Montgomery designed a multi-purpose broadcast studio and training center to serve several journalism schools and Radio Liberty producers. [6]
In 2015 he launched the Smart Film School as an online video academy to deliver training course packs for educators. The school includes more than 450 video tutorials organized into masterclasses that professors and students use to learn mobile journalism, mobile filmmaking and innovation methods.
In 2018, Routledge Press (New York and London) published Montgomery's second book "Smartphone Video Storytelling" as a hybrid textbook that includes a rich library of e-learning materials.
Working as the group's CEO, Montgomery incorporated the Visual Editors social network in 2004 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity, positioning the site as an educational exchange for student and professional journalists working in the world's newsrooms. The charity is operated by a volunteer board of directors. [7]
Since leaving the Chicago Sun-Times in 2005, Montgomery has worked as a journalism educator for U.S. and foreign media groups including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, WAN-IFRA, Egypt Media Development Group, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, IFRA, and INMA.
Since 2003, he has been hired as a distinguished visiting professor to develop and teach journalism courses at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Cairo University, EFJ School of new journalism in Paris, FH Wien School of journalism, the Danish School of Journalism and Stockholm University.
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Montgomery worked as a newspaper editor and designer from 1990 to 2005 and was a principal editor and the designer of Chicago's Red Streak newspaper [1] that was published by the Chicago Sun-Times starting in October, 2002 as a competitor to the Chicago Tribune's RedEye tabloid.
As a visual editor, he led the 2003 redesign of the Chicago Sun-Times [2] and the 2005 redesign of The San Francisco Examiner . [3] In 2004, he founded Visual Editors, a non-profit that connects and provides educational resources for visual journalists worldwide. In 2005, he redesigned The Examiner newspaper for the San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metro markets.
Montgomery redesigned the business section for The San Jose Mercury News in early 2007. [4]
In 2005, he retired from the Chicago Sun-Times to launch a consulting business and begin teaching visual journalism methods with media development projects worldwide.He is a former Chicago newspaper editor, [5] and founder of a social network for journalists, Visual Editors. [6]
In 2011, he developed the mobile journalism training, technology and workflows used by hundreds of Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) reporters and correspondents in 23 countries.
He is listed in the U.S. Speaker's bureau as a mobile journalism expert and delivers workshops to journalism groups for U.S Embassies worldwide.
Montgomery is the chair of the Mobile Journalism Awards and he screens the best documentary mobile journalism films each year at the. [7] NABshow in Las Vegas and the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. [8]
He is a distinguished visiting professor at the EFJ School of New Journalism in Paris and at American University, Cairo where he leads Mobile Reporting and Story Lab workshops to promote entrepreneurial and video storytelling. [9]
He designed the IREX Multimedia Education Center, a USAID-funded broadcast training facility in Tbilisi, Georgia built entirely around mobile journalism. [10]
Montgomery is the founder of the Smart Film School an online academy that produced diploma courses and certified training in mobile journalism and documentary filmmaking. [11]
Previously, Montgomery worked as an editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and led large-scale redesign projects at several publications including the Chicago Sun-Times, Leadership, and The San Francisco Examiner .
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