MediaStorm

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American film production company

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::summary American film production company ::

MediaStorm is a Los Gatos, California based film production and interactive design studio. The company produces online news stories

Content and services

The MediaStorm website features stories with an emphasis on photojournalism and social commentary. Their films have been picked up by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Notable projects include Marlboro Marine, The Sandwich Generation, Driftless, BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family, and Never Coming Home. MediaStorm runs auctions for media agencies to bid for the rights to run their stories. Its clients include Apple Inc, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, National Geographic, and Starbucks, the first corporate client.

MediaStorm offers workshops on multimedia storytelling 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

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". By 2007, they had been positively profiled in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 2010, MediaStorm underwent a major site redesign.

Awards

In 2013, MediaStorm was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for National Online News Organization Website. Since 2010, the company has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards and won two Alfred Dupont Awards. 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, 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. It received an honorable mention at the International photography awards.

References

References

  1. Guzmán, Mónica. (18 January 2007). "What's Online". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  2. Panzer, Mary. (8 July 2008). "Photojournalism for the Web Generation". Wall Street Journal Online.
  3. "Best of the Web".
  4. "Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway".
  5. "Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s".
  6. "See David Guttenfelder's award-winning photos from inside North Korea".
  7. Mitchell, Natasha. (13 July 2008). "Up close and personal...". ABC Radio National.
  8. Derballa, Bryan. (21 May 2009). "Multimedia Done Right: 'Driftless' Blows Up the Format". Wired.com.
  9. Cohen, Joshua. (1 January 2008). "Review of MediaStorm". Tilzy.TV.
  10. Walker, David. (4 June 2009). "Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers". Editor & Publisher.
  11. kari. "MediaStormin työpaja New Yorkissa".
  12. Junnarkar, Sandeep. (22 January 2007). "Building a perfect storm of journalism and multimedia". OJR: The Online Journalism Review.
  13. "MediaStorm launches redesign and new projects".
  14. "2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners".
  15. "Awards".
  16. Tilsner, Jamison. (2 September 2007). "Broadband Emmy's Show the Promise of Open TV". Tilzy.TV.
  17. MediaStorm. "MediaStorm".
  18. "IPA 2012 Winner / Furries, A Tail of Identity / Toni Greaves Photography / Toni Greaves".

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