Robb Montgomery is an international journalist based in Berlin, Germany, and is the author of the IREX S.M.A.R.T. Media Lab - a training facility built for mobile media production.
He recently developed the mobile reporting training, technology and workflows used by hundreds of Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) reporters and correspondents.
Montgomery’s media development experience includes authoring curriculum and practicum for editorial filmmaking, social media, writing for the Web, and mobile multimedia programs in Egypt, Georgia, and Bosnia.
He has taught visual editing to graduate students at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and currently contributes as a senior lecturer to the International Academy of Journalism in Hamburg.
Montgomery has worked as an editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and led large-scale redesign projects at several publications including the Chicago Sun-Times, Leadership, and The San Francisco Examiner.
He is the author of “A Field Guide for Mobile Journalism: Creating multimedia stories with smartphones and mobile devices.” which will be published in 2014.
In 2004, he founded Visual Editors, a global non-profit devoted to improving visual journalism standards.
Montgomery's clients include Axel Springer, Intajour, IREX, Styria Media, Poynter, Leadership, Toronto Star, 7 Days, Egypt Media Development Program, Media.ba, France 24, Caritas, Kircher-Burkhardt and RFE/RL.
Details at http://www.robbmontgomery.com