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MediaStorm is a Los Gatos, California based film production and interactive design studio. The company produces online news stories[1] using photography, interactivity, and video, and consults on interactive web projects.[2]

Content and services

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The MediaStorm website features stories with an emphasis on photojournalism[3] and social commentary. Their films have been picked up by The Los Angeles Times,[4] The New York Times,[5] The Atlantic,[6] and The Washington Post.[7] Notable projects include Marlboro Marine,[8] The Sandwich Generation, Driftless,[9] BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family, and Never Coming Home. MediaStorm runs auctions for media agencies to bid for the rights to run their stories.[10] The site also offers for sale books that films are based on, music from the works, and other products from the film producers.[1] Its clients include Apple Inc, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, National Geographic, and Starbucks, the first corporate client.[11]

MediaStorm offers workshops on multimedia storytelling[12] in addition to providing documentation on gathering audio, producing with Apple's Final Cut and Adobe Premiere Pro, and details on audio and video equipment.

History

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MediaStorm was founded on 16 November 2005 by Brian Storm, a graduate of the University of Missouri in photojournalism, a former director of multimedia at MSNBC.com and a former vice president of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis, who wanted to get back to his "publishing roots".[10] By 2007, they had been positively profiled in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[2] In 2010, MediaStorm underwent a major site redesign.[13]

Awards

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In 2013, MediaStorm was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for National Online News Organization Website.[14] Since 2010, the company has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards and won two Alfred Dupont Awards.[15] In 2008, MediaStorm won an Emmy with the Council on Foreign Relations for Crisis Guide: Darfur, two Webby Awards and Best Use of Multimedia in the Pictures of the Year Contest. In 2007, MediaStorm won an Emmy for Kingsley's Crossing by Olivier Jobard,[16] took first place in both the Best of Photojournalism Contest and Pictures of the Year, and won the Webby Award for the Magazine category.

A Tail of Identity, a 2009 short documentary about people identifying as furries, was produced as part of MediaStorm's storytelling workshop.[17] It received an honorable mention at the International photography awards.[18]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 Cohen, Joshua (1 January 2008). "Review of MediaStorm". Tilzy.TV. Retrieved 2009-08-03.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. 1 2 Guzmán, Mónica (18 January 2007). "What's Online". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2009-08-03.[permanent dead link]
  3. Panzer, Mary (8 July 2008). "Photojournalism for the Web Generation". Wall Street Journal Online. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  4. Lee, Albert. "Best of the Web". The Los Angeles Times Framework blog. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  5. Estrin, James. "Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway". The New York Times Lens blog. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  6. "Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s". The Atlantic In Focus blog. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  7. Kaphle, Anup. "See David Guttenfelder's award-winning photos from inside North Korea". The Washington Post WorldViews. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  8. Mitchell, Natasha (13 July 2008). "Up close and personal..." All in the Mind blog. ABC Radio National. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  9. Derballa, Bryan (21 May 2009). "Multimedia Done Right: 'Driftless' Blows Up the Format". Raw File. Wired.com. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  10. 1 2 Junnarkar, Sandeep (22 January 2007). "Building a perfect storm of journalism and multimedia". OJR: The Online Journalism Review. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  11. Walker, David; Photo District News (4 June 2009). "Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  12. kari. "MediaStormin työpaja New Yorkissa". Doc Images. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  13. Stuart, Jessica. "MediaStorm launches redesign and new projects". MediaStorm Blog. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  14. "2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners". RTDNA. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  15. "Awards". MediaStorm. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  16. Tilsner, Jamison (2 September 2007). "Broadband Emmy's Show the Promise of Open TV". Tilzy.TV. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  17. MediaStorm. "MediaStorm". www.mediastorm.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  18. "IPA 2012 Winner / Furries, A Tail of Identity / Toni Greaves Photography / Toni Greaves". photoawards.com. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
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