CEO, Visual Editors.com
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Founder at Camp Video Journalism
- CEO at Robb Montgomery Consulting
- Board secretary and CEO at Visual Editors
- Past
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- News Design Editor at Chicago Sun-Times
- Developer of Editorial News Projects at Sun-Times News Group
- Design Editor at Sun Publications
- Design editor at Copley Chicago Newspapers
- Art Director at Chicago Tribune
- Art & Design Director at XS Magazine (now called CityLink)
- News artist at Sun-Sentinel
- Graphics intern and reporter at South Florida Sun-Sentinel
- Education
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- Eastern Illinois University
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Robb Montgomery’s Summary
Robb Montgomery is a Chicago journalist and former newspaper editor.
In 2004 he founded a social network and public charity for visual journalism education, Visual Editors. Montgomery is recognized as an influential visual journalist in the U.S. with his work on the 2003 redesign of the Chicago Sun-TImes, the 2005 redesign of The San Francisco Examiner, and online multimedia startups Visual Editors and Camp Video Journalism.
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.
Montgomery works as a journalism educator for U.S. and foreign media groups including, the World Association of Newspapers, Egypt Media Development Group, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, IFRA, INMA and many others.
Clients include: The World Editors Forum (Paris)
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
Egypt Media Development Project (Cairo)
IFRA/Asia (Singapore)
IFRA/France (Paris)
INMA
DPMP Training Group (Warsaw)
Canadian Newspaper Association
British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association
APME Newstrain
Latvian Press Publishers association
Danish Press Publishers Association
Michigan State University
UCLAN: university of Central Lancashire (U.K.)
KircherBurkhardt (Berlin)
24Sata (Zagreb)
Chicago Sun-Times News Group
The Mercury News
View Magazine.tv
Red Dear Express
Green Power Conferences (U.K.)
The Globe and Mail
The Examiner (San Francisco, Baltimore and Washington D.C.)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Gulf News (Dubai)
Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm)
Media Giraffe
American Press Institute
Details at http://www.robbmontgomery.com
Robb Montgomery’s Specialties:
video journalism, education, multimedia, newspaper redesign, newspaper design, training, seminars, newspapers
Robb Montgomery’s Experience
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Founder
Camp Video Journalism
(Education Management industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Producing video journalism training events and reports for some of the top media groups in the world.
The World Editors Forum (Paris)
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
Egypt Media Development Project (Cairo)
IFRA/France (Paris)
INMA
DPMP Training Group (Warsaw)
Canadian Newspaper Association
British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association
APME Newstrain
Danish Press Publishers Association
Michigan State University
KircherBurkhardt (Berlin)
24Sata (Zagreb)
Chicago Sun-Times News Group
Green Power Conferences (U.K.)
The Globe and Mail
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CEO
Robb Montgomery Consulting
(Publishing industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Robb consults with top publishing groups to develop multimedia journalism projects and designs and produces custom training programs for newspaper associations.
Training topics include:
• Video Journalism
• Launching and relaunching products
• Design and redesign
• Multimedia reporting
• Video for reporters
• Tabloid and magazine design
• Social networking tools for reporters
• Building and Managing User-Generated Content
• Using low-cost multimedia in blogs
Visit http://www.robbmontgomery.com for full details.
Montgomery is also a noted news product developer for newspapers. He was a principal editor and designer of Chicago's Red Streak newspaper that launched in October, 2002. He redesigned the business section for The San Jose Mercury News in early 2007. He also redesigned The Examiner for San Francisco and Washington, D.C. in 2005. -
Board secretary and CEO
Visual Editors
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)
Visual Editors is a social network and visual journalism education resource that uses online forums, peer-to-peer sharing resources and offline training events like Camp Video Journalism. Montgomery incorporated Visual Editors as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity in 2004.
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News Design Editor
Chicago Sun-Times
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HLR; Newspapers industry)
September 2001 — November 2005 (4 years 3 months)
As a senior editor in the newsroom Robb was a principal designer in the 2003 redesign of the Chicago Sun-Times and designed many of the paper's award-wining news investigations. Including 'Clout On Wheels' - the Hired Trucks scandal that uncovered vast corruption in Mayor Daley's City Hall.
Robb had daily responsibilties for Page One of the paper and he designed the famous Red Streak - a commuter youth tabloid edition that launched in October 2002.
He won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in 2004 and was nominated again in 2005 - both awards were for high-profile series about local people and their issues. -
Developer of Editorial News Projects
Sun-Times News Group
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
Robb developed a range of special projects for internal and external customers for the Sun-Times newsroom and other departments. As a senior editor, Robb was involved in developing many advanced editorial prototypes for future multimedia and print products.
When the Sun-Times moved into new offices, Robb curated, designed and managed the installation of a large-format picture gallery of historic news photography and artifacts from the newspaper's journalism history. -
Design Editor
Sun Publications
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 1997 — September 2001 (4 years 9 months)
Robb's redesign of Sun Publications was honored in 2000 by the Society of News Design and profiled in March of 2001 in Update magazine. The staff of Sun Publications won numerous awards from the Pictures of the Year competition, the Illinois Press Association and the Society of News Design for outstanding documentary photojournalism and presentation.
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Design editor
Copley Chicago Newspapers
(Newspapers industry)
1997 — 2001 (4 years)
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Art Director
Chicago Tribune
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRB; Newspapers industry)
March 1993 — January 1997 (3 years 11 months)
Robb won two bronze awards from the Society of News design for the design of the greoundbreaking KidNews section. A weekly edition of the paper produced for 8-to-12-year-olds.
After 18 months of designing KidNews, Robb was the art director for The Arts, Friday, Good Eating, Transportation and Your Money sections. -
Art & Design Director
XS Magazine (now called CityLink)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRB; Newspapers industry)
May 1990 — March 1993 (2 years 11 months)
Founding art director for the Fort-Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel's alternative magazine.
Won seven first-place Florida Press Club awards in 1990 for the design, graphics and visual editing. -
News artist
Sun-Sentinel
(Newspapers industry)
1989 — 1991 (2 years)
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Graphics intern and reporter
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Robb Montgomery’s Education
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Eastern Illinois University
Bachelors , Journalism , 1993 — 2000
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Robb Montgomery’s Honors:
Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in 2004 and was nominated again in 2005 - both awards were for editing high-profile, local news series.
Society of News Design - multiple honors for individual, group and portfolio news and features design work.
Florida Press Club - Seven First-Place Awards - 1991 - for the design and visual editing of XS Magazine.
