Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Our UK blogger is now the SND Region 15 Director

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Robb Montgomery
on June 20, 2007
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By Robb Montgomery

Great news from VizEds blogger Alan Formby-Jackson.

SND president Scott Goldman and SND Executive Director Elise Burroughs recently tapped Alan to lead an effort to rebuild Region 15 participation in the global visual journalism debate.

Alan reassures his VizEds blog fans: “Yes, I will still blog for VizEds.”
He is considering recasting his UK blog coverage. May look a bit similar to what VizEds Power Poster Nicole Bogdas does now after SND tapped her to lead Region Three.

Region 15 Headquarters


In Middlesbrough.

“We have a relatively small number of members within the region, but we cover over 20 countries in western Europe, so hopefully I can boost the membership and try to persuade people in the area to be more pro-active members.

“I’m now in the process of drawing up plans for the region’s future.”

VizEds is thrilled to see our active posters and volunteer bloggers extending their efforts to build and rebuild visual journalism connections.

It is all good.

Please give Alan your full attention when he calls you to help out and contact us if you want to join the stable of VizEds Bloggers. We can help you start or transfer your existing blog to the Visual Editors stage.

ALAN FORMBY-JACKSON

Alan Formby-Jackson is a sub-editor/designer at the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough, England. He has been in the newspaper industry for 13 years and was also the senior graphic artist at the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for nearly five years.

Alan completed his MA in Design at the University of Teesside in 2005 and is also a moderator and blogger at visualeditors.com

He is married and has two children.

Recent blog items by Alan

[rsslist:http://feeds.feedburner.com/AlanFormby-jackson]

Robb Montgomery is the founder and Executive director of the Visual Editors public charity.

Desmond Tutu, Les Pauls and Boston

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Robb Montgomery
on June 13, 2007
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Interview with Desmond Tutu - recorded at the World Editors Forum in Cape Town, South Africa. Tutu disusses racism in Second Life with Adam Pasick, the Reuters bureau chief who reports from inside the popular virtual world.

The ‘arch’ also speaks on press freedom and the the digital divide facing citizens living in poorer countries.

Also, Robb Montgomery plays some very loud, but very classic Boston guitar riffs in honor of the SND Boston Workshop and the annual Visual Editors Fundraiser lunch held on the Saturday during the conference.

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Tutu’s avatar was created by the Electric Sheep Company.

Desmond Tutu, Les Pauls and Boston

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Robb Montgomery
on June 13, 2007
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Interview with Desmond Tutu - recorded at the World Editors Forum in Cape Town, South Africa. Disusses racism in Second Life with Adam Pasick, the Reuters bureau chief who reports from inside the popular virtual world. Also, Robb Montgomery plays some classic Boston guitar riffs in honor of the SND Boston Workshop and the annual Visual Editors Fundraiser lunch held on the Saturday during the conference.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by vizeds with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

Videos from the World Editors Forum - Cape Town 2007

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Robb Montgomery
on June 7, 2007
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By Robb Montgomery

Visual Editors and the World Editors Forum teamed up again on a multimedia project from the annual meeting of the world’s press.

For Cape Town, we deployed two teams of Stellenbosch University Journalism students to video blog from the conference and also film extensive documentary interviews with top editors about newsroom print - online integration.

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Ed Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s Globe and Mail, speaks with WEF’s John Burke about integrated newsrooms.
Students Gina Schreuder and Siyabonga Africa film the interview that will be edited this summer to produce training videos.

“You’ve got to be willing to experiment: that’s a culture you’ve got to create. You must be confident to take risks”, Greenspon said.

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FRONT: Siyabonga Africa, Gina Schreuder, Alida van Niekerk, Adam Herman Scholtz, Joanita Cillie

BACK: John Burke, Robb Montgomery, Andre-Pierre du Plessis

The live conference video blog reports

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WEF: Editors reaction to Cape Town conference


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WEF: Session Seven: Free papers producing quality journalism


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WEF: Session Six: Reporting Africa for Africans & the world


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WEF: Session Five: Front page vs. Home page

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WEF: Session Four: User generated content

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WEF: Session Three: Integrated newsrooms

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WEF: Session Two: Multi-newspaper newsrooms

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WEF: Session One: Newsroom Barometer

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WEF: How is the digital age influencing newspapers.

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WEF: Nurturing press freedom

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WEF: What is news?

Bill Keller podcast from Cape Town

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Robb Montgomery
on June 2, 2007
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By Robb Montgomery, Visual Editors
Photos by Gina Schreuder, University of Stellenbosch

A podcast interview with Bill Keller,
Executive Editor of The New York Times.

Bill Keller and Adam Pasick conduct an audio interview that played live in Second Life.

in this 37-minute interview, Adam Pasick, Reuters Bureau chief for Second Life, talks with the top editor of the paper about journalism on the African continent, press freedoms, Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones, as well as the redesign of the paper and the demands for managing digital reporting in his newroom.


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Podcast with Bill Keller, New York Times editor

Adam Pasick - Second Life reporter for Reuters

Published
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Robb Montgomery
on June 1, 2007
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Adam Pesick interviews Desmond Tutu in Cape Town
By Robb Montgomery

CAPE TOWN: The Archbishop emiritus, Desmond Tutu, gave a special audience today with a few of us reporting and presenting on new media journalism at the World Editors Forum in Cape Town.

We made some video this morning and also were happy to observe Adam Pasick, Reuters Second Life bureau chief, chat for a few mintues one on one with Desmod Tutu at the ‘Arch’s’ office in Cape Town. “Arch” is what the former Archboshop’s friends and staff called him in our presence.

Adam’s interview (and maybe some video) will be streamed on Second Life as part of the programme and we will provide links when that interview happens as an As Life event. Tutu also taped a video address. The podcast linked to below was recorded as Adam, Robb and World Editors Forum Director, Bertrand Pecquerie were en route to Desmond’s office Friday morning. At the time of recording the cab driver was a bit confused as to the directions . . .


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