MediaStorm Wins Webby Award

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We are proud to announce that MediaStorm has won a prestigious 2007 Webby Award in the Magazine category. Other nominees in the category were Salon, Nerve, Zink and Worldchanging. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The 11th Annual Webby Awards received 8,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

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MediaStorm Awash with New Talent

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Over the last 8-months MediaStorm has grown it's production capabilities by bringing aboard four top-tier multimedia professionals. The most recent addition is Multimedia Producer Chad Stevens. Before joining MediaStorm Chad was studying as a master's degree candidate at School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Prior to that, he worked as a faculty member at Western Kentucky University's photojournalism program. In 2002, he spent a year living in East Africa producing multimedia projects for Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Read more of Chad's work and personal history. In February, Interactive Designer Tim Klimowicz came aboard. Prior to joining MediaStorm, Tim was completing a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts. His ongoing interactive project - Iraq War Coalition Fatalities - has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and received recognition from multiple media outlets, including the…

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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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Roundtable Discussion: AIDS & Photography, What More Can Pictures Do

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401 Projects presents a roundtable discussion with: Laurie Garret, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Author Maryanne Golon, Photo Editor, Time Magazine Leigh Blake, President and Founder, Keep A Child Alive Since AIDS first exploded into the public consciousness twenty-five years ago, photography has offered the world its most visceral glimpse of the disease's human toll. Have viewers been moved to action or developed an immunity to the tragedy the images depict? How can photographers, and the media alike, navigate their way between impact and overload? Set to the backdrop of Kristen Ashburn's, Bloodline: AIDS & Family exhibition, these issues, and more, will be discussed. Photographers, editors, writers, and leaders in the non-profit sector will explore, through conversation and visual projections, photography's reaction to the disease, past, present and future. See Kristen Ashburn's BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family project on MediaStorm. Chris Anderson of the T.E.D. Conference will moderate the evening. 7:30 PM Tuesday, December…

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MSNBC Wins Exclusive Multimedia Publishing Rights in MediaStorm’s
First Online Auction

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MSNBC.com won exclusive internet rights to MediaStorm's production, Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi. The private online auction ran for four days and was conducted at http://mediastorm.org. Participants included news, lifestyle and arts publications from around the world. MSNBC.com will premiere the project on November 13th, 2006. Iraqi Kurdistan is an in-depth and timely look into the daily lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq presented in flipbook-style animation. "It's our goal at MediaStorm to produce innovative projects that exemplify the power of multimedia storytelling and place those productions with top-tier publications," said Brian Storm, President of MediaStorm. "The unique nature of this project and the streamlined process of the online auction allowed us to make that happen." Read more about this in American Photo's State of the Art. Image Caption: MSNBC.com Director of Multimedia Robert Hood (left) and Senior Media Producer Meredith Birkett place their winning bid for Iraqi Kuridsistan, MediaStorm's…

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