# Robb Montgomery

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.

## Early life

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.

## Author

Mobile Journalism
(2020-2024, Visual Editors, Chicago)
Smartphone Video Storytelling
(2018, Taylor & Francis, New York & London)
Video mit dem Smartphone
(2019, dPunkt Verlag - German language edition)

## Mobile Journalism

Montgomery is the author of the Mobile Journalism textbook 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 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.
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.

## Visual Editors

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.

## Journalism educator

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.