Robb Montgomery is a Berlin-based American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and visual media anthropologist known for his contributions to mobile journalism and media development programs.

He is a former Chicago newspaper editor who builds immersive cultural heritage experiences that mesh investigative journalism, documentary film, spatial computing, ethnography, and shoe-leather reporting. He spent three weeks in Ukraine in 2023, leading internally displaced journalists to produce 18 short documentary films during the full-scale invasion.

He founded the Smart Film School in 2015 and has trained reporters in more than 30 countries, including broadcast journalists at CNN, Channel News Asia, VRT, Reuters, and The New York Times. He is the author of Mobile Journalism (2020-2025, Visual Editors, Chicago) and Smartphone Video Storytelling (2018, Taylor & Francis – New York & London) textbooks.

He founded Visual Editors, NFP in 2004 as a public charity to support visual journalism literacy. Montgomery’s documentary films have won top prizes at festivals in L.A., Moscow, and Berlin.

His work is cited in academic literature on media democratization, newsroom innovation, and digital storytelling pedagogy.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern Illinois University (1990) and is earning a master’s in visual media anthropology at Media University, Berlin (expected 2026).