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Las Vegas: Visual Editors interviews with two women
who have just won World's Best Designed Newspaper honors from the SND competition.

These two editors set a high standard for newspaper design quality and have been on a roll lately winning many top design prizes in Europe and elsewhere.

Svetlana Maximchenko is the 27-year old Editor-in-chief of Moscow's Akzia.
Akzia was named a World's Best Designed last year s the toast of Russia.

Jördis Guzmán Bulla is the art director for Germany national Sunday edition, Welt am Sonntag and is also a multiple winner of top design prizes.

Two years ago she won the gold medal for graphics, last Year her paper was voted Europes' Best Designed Newspaper and this year her team won The World's Best Designed Newspaper for work produced in 2008.

Let's see if we can learn some of the secrets from Europe's top visual journalists.

How I got the Tiger Woods exclusive interview.

Journalism professor Ken Carpenter shares interview techniques with Camp Video Journalism Orlando students.

As a reporter he got an exclusive interview with Tiger Woods immediately after fellow pro golfer Casey Martin sued the PGA Tour for the right to use a cart to play golf at PGA tour events.

Martin has a rare circulatory disability that makes it nearly impossible for him to walk 18 holes.

Film by Robb Montgomery

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 video training that can make a dramatic difference, right away.

See the student films at campvj.com

A film by Robb Montgomery

NOTES:
Camp VJ Chicago - Learn how to make documentary video journalism: With Angela Grant of Newsvideographer, David Dunkley Gyimah of Viewmagazine.tv and Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors

John 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.

Chicago TV journalist and Chicago Sun-Times political columnist, 
Carol Marin, answers questions from Camp VJ Chicago students about interviewing techniques for video reports.

John 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.

During a speech at the 15th World Editors Forum in Goteborg, Sweden, Garry Kasparov, leader of The Other Russia, an opposition political party, addressed subjects such as press freedom and the political climate for journalists in today's Russia. Immediately following his address, Vladimir Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the number one tabloid in Russia stood up and invited Kasparov to speak in Russia about these issues. The video shows Vladimir's offer being translated by Eugene Abov

Sit down with Svetlana Maximchenko, the editor of Akzia, a youth newspaper published in Moscow that was recently named one of the World’s Best Designed.

Robb Montgomery interviews her in Las Vegas at a newspaper congress.

Robb Montgomery leads a team of student VJs who will produce daily film reports in Gothenburg, Sweden 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

Can you get high quality with smaller cameras?

OVERHEARD:

A quick-turnaround video from the PressForum conference in Warsaw with Poland's publishers and editors.

The focus was to illustrate strategies for launching and relaunching print titles in tabloid format at PressForum, the gathering of Poland’s magazine and newspaper press.

24Sata newspaper journalists practice making Web movies

The documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt. Working with a translator and an assistant, the film's director, Robb Montgomery, worked with 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary in one week's time.

The journalists worked in two teams on locations around Egypt's second-largest city with the goal of interviewing a wide range of subjects. The film project is produced entirely in Arabic language. (an English-language version may be available later in 2090)

Over the course of four days the reporters received daily instruction in the fundamentals of video journalism by the producer and were given live filming assignments to begin the reporting for this documentary.

This film was produced during a Video Journalism training workshop sponsored by USAID and the Egypt Media Develpment Project.

The movie was first screened at the Bibliotech Library in Alexandria for an international journalism conference that was organized around how to produce better local media and reporting in the Arab world.

Charles Apple talks with Robb Montgomery about teaching a three-day visual journalism (Design and Graphics) workshop.
Also interviewed is Darren Sanefski, Carrie Hamilton, and Daniel Hunt and they talk about the three-day visual journalism (Design and Graphics) workshop sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in Harrisburg, PA.

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation

Chicago TV journalist and Chicago Sun-Times political columnist, Carol Marin, answers questions from Camp VJ Chicago students about interviewing techniques for video reports.

More videos at Camp Video Journalism

Art Institute, April 8-9, 2008: Speakers and delegates from the GreenPower Conference meet in Chicago to share best practices for lowering carbon impact in manufacturing sectors.
A Film by Robb Montgomery.

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 medium, one that print-trained journalists can succeed in.

Documentary report from the Camp Video Journalism training week held at the Chicago Sun-Times May 5-9, 2008.
LINK: campvj.com
Go to Campvj.com for more detail and student films.

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 video training that can make a dramatic difference, right away.

See the student films at campvj.com

A film by Robb Montgomery

NOTES:
Camp VJ Chicago - Learn how to make documentary video journalism: With Angela Grant of Newsvideographer, David Dunkley Gyimah of Viewmagazine.tv and Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors.