MediaStorm Wins Three Pictures of the Year International Awards

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The prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition has awarded MediaStorm first place for Best Use Interactive Publication/Small Media for the MediaStorm online publication, first place for Best Multimedia Feature Story or Essay for The Sandwich Generation by Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi and second place Best Multimedia News Story or Essay for BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family by Kristen Ashburn. A complete list of a winners is available online.

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MediaStorm Produces 'Ivory Wars' for National Geographic

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Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma is now featured in the March interactive edition of National Geographic online. The multimedia piece describes the elephant poaching situation around Zakouma National Park in Chad and was produced by MediaStorm in conjunction with this month's National Geographic cover story of the same title by conservationist J. Michael Fay and photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols.

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LOOK3 – Festival of the Photograph

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LOOK3 - Festival of the Photograph is three days of peace, love and photography to be held June 7th-9th 2007 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival is a celebration of the careers of legendary artists, emerging talent and a showcase for the best photograhy from the past year. Charlottesville's historic downtown will come alive with exhibitions, master classes, insight conversations, outdoor screenings and other events. This year's festival will celebrate Bill Allard, Sally Mann and Eugene Richards among others. Photographers and enthusiasts from around the world will be able to show work, meet new artists and celebrate photography.

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MediaStorm Develops Korea Crisis Guide for Council on Foreign Relations

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MediaStorm collaborated with the Council on Foreign Relations to design, develop and implement Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula. The guide 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.

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MediaStorm Produces 'A Change of Heart' for National Geographic

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MediaStorm worked with photographer Robert Clark's images to tell the story of one man's total artificial heart transplant in A Change of Heart. This multimedia piece is one element of National Geographic's comprehensive feature project entitled Mending Broken Hearts. Excerpt from NationalGeographic.com: There are five million cases of heart failure in the United States each year. When a heart fail, its ventricles -- or pumping chamber -- become too weak to pump blood. In such cases, doctors will often implant a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) to aid the heart. When both of the heart's ventricles fail, however, a VAD may not be effective. Instead, doctors turn to the CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart, or TAH-t, which is used to sustain a patient until a transplant heart is available. Patients who undergo this "bridge to transplant" increase their odds of living another year by almost 40 percent. On March 26, 2006, Danuel Allen,…

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