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I am still buzzing from the energy of the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai. The shift is no longer a prediction; it is our reality. The “industrial-age’ newsroom is being challenged by agile, niche, and highly-trusted News Creators. If you are ready…

What I’m Learning as a journalism creator professor I’ve been reflecting on how creator journalism is moving from experiment to mainstream—one in three journalists now build independent practices.  “Report: The Rise of the Creator-Journalist,” published by the Video Consortium in collaboration with Project C…

The 2025 University Edition of the Mobile Journalism is the preferred set text for professors teaching courses in smartphone video production, mobile journalism, digital marketing, broadcast reporting, and mobile filmmaking. Why Professors Choose Mobile Journalism Mobile Journalism University Edition is the ideal syllabus-ready textbook for teaching modern multimedia…

I’ve been thinking about the Original Sin of social media lately. A new project spinning up here in Berlin has me revisiting why I built Visual Editors back in 2004—the first social network for visual journalists. Back then, we were idealists who believed…

Trust is tops for creators This week at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai, one theme kept surfacing in nearly every discussion I heard: content needs a purpose beyond views.  As creators, educators, and media entrepreneurs, we are being pushed—by platforms, by audiences,…

I watched a legendary newsroom miss the real story because it was still built for print. Today, news creators with a smartphone can report, edit, and publish in real time—and that shift is reshaping journalism in 2026….

“Are you one of the aspiring news creators defining 2026? Join the News Creator Sprint and catch Robb Montgomery’s ‘The Newsroom is Dead’ session in Dubai this January.”…