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 to lead this transition in your newsroom or classroom, let’s talk. I […]
News Creator Journalism in 2026: What Educators Need to Know
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 and Fordham University is out. This study examines how independent video […]
Mobile Journalism – University Textbook
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.
The $314 Billion Pivot: Why Creator Journalism is the New Mainstream
For years, the legacy news industry treated the “creator economy” as a side hustle for influencers. Today, that side hustle is a $314 billion global ecosystem—and it is actively dismantling traditional media distribution. In a recent address, former BBC News executive Deborah Turness called the rise of creator journalism “the most disruptive shift the news […]
The Creator Economy’s Ownership Problem: Protect Your IP from AI
he creator economy promises independence, but building your journalism on rented land leaves your intellectual property vulnerable to AI data scrapers. Discover the five-step blueprint to protect your content, secure your direct audience, and master creator economy ownership before the platforms replace you.
How Johnny Harris Built a 7.5M Subscriber Newsroom Without Selling Out
For decades, the journalism industry operated under a fatal assumption: the internet killed long-form reporting. We were told that digital audiences possessed the attention spans of gnats, and that survival required pivoting to cheap, viral, short-form content. Johnny Harris proved them wrong. With over 7.5 million YouTube subscribers, the former Vox producer has built an […]
When your glasses have a camera, who else gets to watch?
HOLLYWOOD: I just tried on the $500 Ray-Ban Meta glasses at the Meta Lab store on Melrose, and I walked out thinking less about the gadget and more about what it says about where media is heading. A recent investigation by Swedish journalists at Svenska Dagbladet reported that Meta’s smart-glasses content could be reviewed by […]
MOJO workshop at BEA Las Vegas
Mobile Journalism workshop at the Broadcast Education Association By Robb Montgomery Here are the primary resources, frameworks, and digital repositories shared during our Saturday workshop exploring “The Journalist as Cultural Steward: Kinetic Ethnography and Mobile Storytelling”. The Trust Graph A 19 year longitudinal visual ethnography and 40,000 word academic monograph documenting the structural collapse of […]
The Trust Graph – Journalism’s New Era
The Trust Graph: An Ethnography of Journalism Rituals and Verification in the Age of AI and News Creators Published by Visual Editors, NFP ISBN: 978-0-9903502-4-8. LCCN: 2026906983. In an information ecosystem flooded with zero-cost synthetic content, the traditional newsroom has collapsed. The Trust Graph delivers a definitive 19-year longitudinal visual ethnography documenting this profound metamorphosis. […]
The Los Angeles Residency: Bringing the 2026 Mobile Journalism Framework to the USA
After another incredible year of teaching at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), I am packing up my mobile kits and heading to the West Coast. From April through June 2026, I will be based in Los Angeles. This three-month residency is a unique window for me to reconnect with U.S.-based newsrooms, journalism programs, […]