Don’t miss- How innovative photo collectives could save photojournalism- today!

This has a lot of potential to be a great conversation. Don't miss it! Strength In Numbers: How innovative photo collectives could save photojournalism From Miki Johnson, RESOLVE Blog: Time: October 6, 2009- 15:00 GMT Location: Online Event Description: For many photographers, one of the hardest things about the current business paradigm is that it requires them to work totally on their own. Photographers not only have to make photos, record audio, and capture video, they are also running their own business, coming up with their own assignments, and marketing their own work. There are many innovative groups working against this trend, who understand the benefits of banding together with other creatives, including people with different skill sets, like marketing, accounting and design. This webinar will ask four such groups to answer three basic questions: 1. How are you running your organization? 2. What are the benefits for the photographers/professionals involved? 3.…

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MediaStorm looking for Spring 2010 interns- apply by October 15, 2009.

We're looking for interns for Spring 2010. If you're motivated, highly-organized, and passionate about multimedia, we'd love to hear from you. Start dates are flexible. We're looking for experience in multimedia production, design, motion graphics, and/or programming for web. Internships will be paid. We've pulled together some of the most frequent questions applicants ask- please read through these, and let us know if you have any other questions. Application Deadline is October 15, 2009. Apply here. What will I be doing? This is a production internship. You will be working closely with the MediaStorm team to produce multimedia projects. This means full days in front of Final Cut, doing picture research, organizing images, transcribing, etc. If you are here during one of our Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshops, you will be producing a Behind the Scenes piece (you can see previous ones here and here), but other than that, you will most likely…

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MediaStorm welcomes intern Maisie Crow

We are excited to welcome Maisie Crow as our fall 2009 Intern. Maisie Crow is an award-winning photographer and a graduate student in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Maisie was the recipient of the 2009 Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association Award, and also won the 2009 Ian Parry Scholarship for her series, Love Me. She spent the summer as the photography intern at The Boston Globe, and previously worked at Patuxtent Publishing Company. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and studied for a semester at the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies. In 2007, she attended the Eddie Adams Workshop. MediaStorm accepts interns throughout the year. The deadline for our spring 2010 Internship is October 15, 2009. Go here for more information.

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Reuters and MediaStorm collaborate to produce Times of Crisis

Reuters and MediaStorm have collaborated to produce Times of Crisis. Times of Crisis Trailer: On September 15, 2008, the 158-year old investment bank Lehman Brothers became the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, its collapse paralyzing the global financial system. Governments pumped in cash, but the crisis deepened and broadened, crippling industries and crushing hopes with a force not seen since the Great Depression. As signs of recovery emerge, Reuters charts 365 days of upheaval to see how lives around the globe have changed as a divergent world embarks on an era of historic challenge. View this special web documentary and interactive timeline at reuters.com/timesofcrisis

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MediaStorm Multimedia Storytelling Workshop Announced

We are excited to announce that we will be holding a One Day Multimedia Storytelling Workshop on Wednesday, October 21, in New York City. The workshop will be held in Manhattan- specific location to be announced shortly. The Workshop will be held from 10am-6pm. The cost of the Workshop is $250. A special discount rate of $200 is available to full-time students. This one-day workshop provides an overview of multimedia storytelling approaches while engaging participants in discussion about the most appropriate ways to create a multimedia story. Through real world examples, the instructor will share tips and techniques to improve reporting and editing and discuss the most effective tools for specific jobs. This workshop is designed for anyone interested in multimedia storytelling, no experience is necessary. We will be looking primarily at multimedia methodology and theory- this is not a workshop to learn how to use your new audio recorder- it’s a…

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