Visual Editors

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Visual Editors.com is an education non-profit that serves a global audience of journalism scholars founded by Robb Montgomery. Members share interactive strategies, editing tactics, media trends, and design knowledge. VizEds is a popular Web site that reaches a global audience of media executives, college media students and journalism scholars.

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    168 episodes
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Episodes of Visual Editors

    • 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 ri...

      • Release date
        Jul 11, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:31
    • GÖTEBORG: Video tour of the Expo floor

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

      • Release date
        Jun 5, 2008
      • Runtime
        01:45
    • GÖTEBORG: Editors discuss impact of the Integrat...

      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 Forum

      • Release date
        Jun 5, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:55
    • GÖTEBORG: 2007 – 2008 print and online launches ...

      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 the World ...

      • Release date
        Jun 5, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:37
    • GÖTEBORG: Digital media training for the new new...

      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

      • Release date
        Jun 4, 2008
      • Runtime
        06:14
    • GÖTEBORG: EXTENDED VIDEO - Garry Kasparov challe...

      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 media cas...

      • Release date
        Jun 4, 2008
      • Runtime
        05:35
    • GÖTEBORG: Newspaper weekend editions win over we...

      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

      • Release date
        Jun 4, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:07
    • GÖTEBORG: Are mobile news and “mojos” changing j...

      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

      • Release date
        Jun 3, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:07
    • GÖTEBORG: The hyper-local news model: a solution...

      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.

      • Release date
        Jun 3, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:25
    • GÖTEBORG: Garry Kasparov challenges Russian pres...

      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 official pres...

      • Release date
        Jun 3, 2008
      • Runtime
        05:35
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