Greg Harris joins MediaStorm

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I'm excited to welcome Greg Harris as MediaStorm's Creative Director. Prior to MediaStorm, Harris was creative director of publishing products for Brightcove and has been designing interactive experiences for more than 15 years. Harris is also a a co-founder of MetaStories, an online publishing tool, that was acquired by Brightcove in 2006. Before MetaStories Greg served as Creative Director for the Seattle office of Circle.com an interactive agency founded by Roger Black. Harris also served as Design Director for MSNBC.com where he and his team were responsible for the design and user experience for the site.

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CFR’s Crisis Guides Finalist in Knight-Batten Awards

CFR.org's Crisis Guides are a finalist for the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The Council on Foreign Relations produces these guides on crisis zones, providing interactive news and information to help make sense of these issues. MediaStorm has worked with CFR as a co-producer on these Guides, which include one on The Korean Peninsula and another on Darfur. Award Winners will be announced on September 17, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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Diane Cook joins MediaStorm

I'm excited to welcome Diane Cook as a Multimedia Producer at MediaStorm. Diane was a producer for public radio's This American Life for the past five years, where she worked on the radio and TV show, and also produced their series of Greatest Hits CDs. The show has won the Peabody, Murrow and duPont awards for its radio reporting, and received Emmy nominations for its TV program.

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MediaStorm Publishes Black Market and Ivory Wars

Black Market: by Patrick BrownBlack Market is an in-depth look into the wildlife trade, the third largest illegal trade in the world. A driving force behind the trade is the ancient belief that animal parts contain "magical" properties. Although science has largely disproved these superstitions, these illegal practices continue. Ivory Wars: by J. Michael Fay and Michael NicholsIvory Wars visits Zakouma National Park in Chad, one of the last places on earth where thousands of elephants roam together. As perennial rains arrive to replenish the desert landscape, some 3,500 elephants seek better forage outside the park perimeter where poachers await them.

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