MediaStorm's Never Coming Home, by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac Barr, and a future MediaStorm project entitled "Iraqi Kurdistan," by Ed Kashi, have been chosen to be shown as part of the gallery show "Overload: Photographing the Iraq War." The show opens Sept. 30th in Johnson City, New York. The goal of the show is to bring a balance of strong photojournalism and multimedia about the Iraq war to a general audience in upstate New York Other journalists included in the show are Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Benjamin Lowy, Lucian Read and Stefan Zaklin. More information about the show and the venue is available online or by contacting the curator Stokes Young at stokes.young@gmail.com.

MediaStorm's Friends for Life and Never Coming Home have been selected as part of ten CurrentTV projects to be screened in the IFP Market Film Festival. The IFP Market is a week-long showcase for new features, works-in-progress, shorts, and scripts created by independent filmmakers. The conference will take place in New York City September 17-21, 2006. The CurrentTV screening will take place at the Angelika Film Center on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 and is tentatively scheduled at 4pm. The IFP Market Website: http://market.ifp.org/newyork/market/market28/index02.html

Learn how to combine still photography, voices, ambient sounds and music with digital video editing to tell compelling humanistic stories. The class, taught by Tim Broekema, is for experienced photographers, photojournalists, picture editors, and media producers who want to create compelling visual stories for television, DVD and web publishing using multi-media storytelling techniques. The 2-week class teaches how to combine the power of still images with location interviews, ambient sounds, music and narration to create a cinematic experience. Lectures, demonstrations and fieldwork cover audio gathering, generating story ideas, research methods and interview techniques, linear story development and the process of gathering and selecting images to tell a story about a place, an event or a person. The Maine Photographic Workshops Website: http://www.theworkshops.com/catalog/courses/index.asp?CourseID=2823&SchoolID=20

The Carnegie-Knight initiative on the future of journalism education called News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas, or News 21, involves a unique collaboration with five research universities including University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, Nothwestern University, Harvard University and Columbia University. Approximately 44 students each year will participate for ten weeks each summer starting in June 2006. Students will create news products that are experimental in substance and style and on a topic of global importance. The goal of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education is to elevate journalism schools within university communities and to integrate them into the academic life of the campus so that they will attract and prepare the journalism leaders of tomorrow for a more complex and intellectually challenging industry. Carnegie-Knight’s News21 Project Website: http://newsinitiative.org/

The projects published on MediaStorm's online publication are now available for download to personal computers and video devices. Future projects will be available via the podcast as they are released on the website. Complete information about how to subscribe to the podcast can be found on the MediaStorm Podcast page at http://mediastorm.org/podcast/. To access with iTunes: http://mediastorm.org/podcast/itunes/ To access with podcast software: http://mediastorm.org/podcast/mediastorm_podcast.xml