Taylor Buley

MediaStorm Welcomes Taylor Buley

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Taylor Buley to the MediaStorm staff as a developer. Taylor Buley is a developer/journalist specializing in JavaScript. He studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and got his masters in Communication from Stanford. He started his career as a fact-checker at Forbes Magazine, where he later became a staff writer and developer and reported from Silicon Valley. Previous to Forbes, where he became a lead editorial developer, he was a Robert L. Bartley fellow at The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page, a Burton C. Gray intern at Reason magazine and interned for the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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Why We Switched to a Pay Per Story Model

Today we launched two new MediaStorm stories. We worked on these projects for almost a year and everyone on the staff contributed to them. Over the past seven years, we’ve done this countless times: used our resources to produce something we believed in, then distributed the final product freely on the Web. As an early producer of online documentary multimedia, our primary mission has been to raise awareness about important issues through a robust social media network. We’ve also tried to create a model that others could use so that more storytellers could harness the medium to effect change. By distributing our stories for free, we’ve been able to reach millions of viewers and bring attention to important causes ranging from climate change to conflict resolution. But the reality is, no company or industry can sustain itself for long without producing a product for which people are willing to pay. At MediaStorm…

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MediaStorm welcomes Pam Huling and Tim McLaughlin

We are excited to welcome Pam Huling and Tim McLaughlin to MediaStorm. Pam will lead our Business Development efforts, and Tim, or first intern back in 2008, returns as a Multimedia Producer. Prior to joining MediaStorm, Pam Huling owned Gaslight Media Consulting, LLC, with clients in Switzerland and New York City. She currently serves on the Executive Board of EZArchive, Inc. and Our Favorite Moments, which are online subscription-based cloud services for consumers. As the former Director of Photo Services at Discovery Communications, Inc., the #1 non-fiction media company in the world, Huling oversaw more than 400 photo and multimedia shoots each year on location around the world, the licensing of millions of dollars in stock content and the management of more than one million media assets. Pam Huling has a background in art and music, holding a degree in graphic design and a Bachelor of Music in bassoon performance from the…

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Jennifer Redfearn joins MediaStorm

We are excited to welcome multimedia producer Jennifer Redfearn to the MediaStorm team. Jennifer is a director, producer, and writer. She has worked on programming for WGBH, WNET, the Discovery Networks, and independent productions. Most recently, she directed and produced Sun Come Up, an independent documentary about environmental refugees. It premiered at the Full Frame festival and is currently making its way around the U.S. and international festival circuit. Prior to this, she co-produced a science special - the final installment of an Emmy-nominated 20-year project for WGBH/NOVA, and she produced a medical series for Discovery. She holds a Bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Wellesley College and a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her projects have been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Chicken and Egg Pictures, NYSCA, and the Friends of Horticulture.

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Rick Gershon joins MediaStorm

We are excited to welcome multimedia producer Rick Gershon to the MediaStorm team. For the last three years he has served as a multimedia photojournalist and staff photographer at Getty Images. Some of his clients include the Discovery Channel, History Channel, A&E, The Travel Channel, AOL.com, MediaStorm and MSNBC. His images of various news and political events have run in newspapers and news magazines around the world and he is currently a featured photographer with Reportage by Getty Images. During his time at Getty he received numerous awards for his multimedia stories from both the National Press Photographers Association and Pictures of the Year, a Webby for Individual Documentary episode and a national Emmy nomination for New Approaches to Documentary Storytelling. After graduating in August 2004 with a B.A. in photojournalism from the University of North Texas, he was named College Photographer of the Year and also received an Award of Excellence…

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