Montgomery Community Media

What a way to end the first ever Summer Backpack Journalism Academy: Sports Edition! Our journalists really knocked their stories out of the park! (Sorry, for the corny baseball reference, but it works!) I am so impressed with what these journalists accomplished this week. Monday started with a lesson in Final Cut Pro X to […]

Our journalists have now hit the streets to get their sports stories. They have done an amazing job preparing for their interviews and I think they are going to have some very good stories. Yesterday was one hot day and our journalists were troopers! We started off with interviewing techniques and recapping what have learned […]

Submit your programs for the 30th Annual Monty Awards.

Alliance for Community Media’s 2014 Hometown Video Awards are swiftly approaching! This exciting event comes once a year and you don’t want to miss your opportunity to participate. The Hometown Video Awards honors and promotes community media and local cable programs that are first distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. […]

Another year has gone and a new year has begun. The January training classes beginning with Intro to Video Basics have filled just about to capacity not that we couldn’t add more classes but the ones we have are doing well. Intro was January 6 and enrollment was off to a very slow start but […]

Every family has some form of a camera , point and shoot, maybe a step up to the SLR’s, even a small relatively inexpensive video camera. Nowadays, don’t even need a camera, still or video all you need is a phone and it can do it all.  You think about all this and do a lot […]

Sunday (11/17) night was the event that we have been planning for since February.  Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown was the place. Don Mooers was the host of the evening .The Monty was the award! The event was the 2013 Monty Awards! It was a night to remember with over 200 guests […]

We celebrated a “Night in the Spotlight” at this year’s Monty Awards on Sunday evening. If you attended the event, please take a few moments to tell us what you thought about it by filling out this quick survey. Thank you for making MCM a great place to be and we can’t wait to see […]

There’s a new type of journalist in town – the video journalist! Last week I was able to participate in one of the most amazing opportunities since I started working at MCM. I got the chance to teach a Video Journalism Camp at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair! For four days, well actually, three days […]

Putting the Stories to Bed   Today is a bittersweet day, the final Summer Backpack Journalism Academy project was completed and all three sessions are done. What a whirlwind summer. I can’t believe how fast the past six weeks have passed. It seems like I was just getting the materials together for the first session. […]