Robert Browman is an Emmy Award-winning producer, editor and journalist.
He returned to MediaStorm in October 2022 after spending a decade at the Albuquerque Journal, the largest daily newspaper in New Mexico, where he served as the paper’s Digital Editor, running a team of crime and breaking news reporters and pursuing long-form multimedia stories on a variety of topics, including immigration, police violence and wildfires.
While at the paper, he spent five years investigating and writing about the still-unsolved West Mesa serial murders with reporting partner Nicole Perez, winning multiple awards and appearing together on national broadcast as experts on the case.
Most recently, he was the Journal’s Director of Photography.
Browman is a proud original member of the MediaStorm team, where he worked with Founder Brian Storm to launch the company in 2004 and served as Senior Producer until 2008, helping to build the publication from the ground up and produce projects for clients such as MSNBC, Council on Foreign Relations, Open Society Institute and the Rocky Mountain News.
He spent the two years prior to MediaStorm at the picture agency Corbis in New York City as Senior Editor for News, helping to build and support a team of world-class photojournalists fulfilling assignments from industry-leading publications such as Time, Newsweek and Paris Match during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and helping to architect and deploy an agency-wide digital workflow for ingesting and managing images.
Before moving to New York, Browman spent three-and-a-half years in Seattle at MSNBC.com as a Multimedia Producer, first working on the fast-paced, 24-hour daily news desk, and then as part of the special projects team producing long-form, award-winning multimedia packages, along with the renowned Week in Pictures feature.
Browman began his career at the Albuquerque Journal in 1996, where he worked for nearly three years, first as a photographer, then as an Online Producer working to develop new methods of storytelling on what was then a burgeoning form of distribution - the Internet.
While at MediaStorm, he won an Emmy Award and was nominated for another, and his work was awarded three times by the Webby Awards, which the New York Times hails as the “Oscars of the Internet”.
In addition, his work has been recognized five times by the prestigious International Academy of Visual Arts W3 Awards, and he has received eight awards from the Pictures of the Year International competition, eight awards from the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition, and two from the Horizon Interactive Awards.
While at the Journal, he received dozens of regional and national awards, including an EPPY Award for his work on a multimedia project detailing the Albuquerque Police Department’s pattern and practice of shooting and killing unarmed citizens, a national Inland Press award for a multimedia project documenting the plight of asylum seekers at the southern border, a Public Service award for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2017 he and Perez received New Mexico’s highest journalism writing award for their reporting on the West Mesa Murders case.
In addition to MediaStorm, his work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS, National Geographic TV, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, Discovery Channel, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Open Society Institute, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among many other publications.
Browman received a degree in journalism in 1996 from the University of Florida and is a proud alumnus of the Independent Florida Alligator student newspaper staff.
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A case study in how MediaStorm built the Seattle AI Film Festival website.
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Zora J Muff sees himself as an artist who happens to be Black living in a society that believes in race. His work shines a light on white supremacy, and has been honored with ICP’s 2023 Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism.
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Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula provides comprehensive background information on the Korean crisis and is driven by in-depth reporting via CFR experts. It is the first in a series of interactive guides to the most complex crises, issues and conflicts on the planet.
Once teetering on the brink of extinction, the Santa Catalina Island Fox made a dramatic recovery. Its resurgence marks one of the greatest conservation success stories in United States history.
In the shadow of Silicon Valley’s booming technology industry, a growing number of people remain out in the cold. Skyrocketing housing prices in America’s hub of innovation have pushed many onto the streets, straining policymakers to find solutions to a homelessness problem that impacts everyone in the community.
This page recognizing Zora J Murff for ICP’s 2023 Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism features a film about his life, a slideshow of his projects and extra clips of his thoughts about his work and motivation.
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Sir Don McCullin never intended to become a photographer. He found it hard to believe he’d ever escape the poverty of North London. But a spur of the moment photograph launched McCullin into a career spanning 50 years in photography.
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Photographer Amber Bracken recognized something deeper than a protest was afoot when hundreds of tribes gathered at the Standing Rock reservation in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Michael Thomasson has devoted his life to video games. It’s been his passion and his obsession for more than three decades. He owns over 11,000 unique game titles for more than 100 different systems.
A film about Michael Christopher Brown for the 2017 ICP Infinity Awards.
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Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth have a complicated relationship with the internet and have worked together to develop an artwork that explored some of the more difficult consequences of what it means to live with the internet.
In 1977, Robyn Davidson walked 1,700 miles across the Australian outback. National Geographic sent Rick Smolan to photograph her perilous journey—a trek that tested and transformed them, forming an immutable bond that continues to this day.
Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.
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Tomas Van Houtryve wants there to be a permanent visual record of the dawn of the drone age, the period in American history when America started outsourcing their military to flying robots. In order to create this record, Van Houtryve sent his own drone into American skies.
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