Read more about the article MediaStorm Announces New Operations and Social Media Manager, Cortney Cleveland

MediaStorm Announces New Operations and Social Media Manager, Cortney Cleveland

MediaStorm is excited to announce that summer intern Cortney Cleveland will permanently join our staff as our new Operations and Social Media Manager. Since joining the MediaStorm team in May, she has overseen the company's social media presence including the launch of our revamped outposts on Tumblr and LinkedIn. Cortney is a freelance writer, helping entrepreneurs and brands tell their stories on the web. She also brings years of public relations experience to her position, having worked on a variety of communications campaigns and managed high-profile client accounts for public relations agencies in Washington, DC (GMMB) and New York City (Peppercom).

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Read more about the article Picture Editor Needed For Save The Children UK

Picture Editor Needed For Save The Children UK

Save the Children UK is looking for a new Picture Editor to work on the organization’s Picture Desk. The role is critical to capturing public attention, inspiring supporters, and showing the impact of Save the Children’s work to save children’s lives and challenge world leaders to keep their promises to give children a brighter future. Position Details The role is full time, permanent contract based in London with a salary of £27,000 - £30,000 + pension dependent on experience. Work hours are flexible. You will need to be comfortable balancing work on multiple projects and commissioning quality photography in a hectic news driven environment. As part of the communications team you will be responsible for commissioning high quality photography, which bears witness to the injustices children face and Save the Children’s work. You will develop, make accessible and disseminate across a number of platforms photography that reflects Save the Children’s brand and…

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Read more about the article Last Day to Apply For MediaStorm’s August Methodology Workshop

Last Day to Apply For MediaStorm’s August Methodology Workshop

The call for applications for the August 12-16, 2013 Workshop will close at the end of the day today. Our Methodology Workshop is tailored to professionals who want to integrate MediaStorm methods into their curriculum or approach to storytelling. Whether you are a creative leader, an educator, an entrepreneur looking to start your own media company, or a professional interested in learning how to build a foundation for timeless, impactful visual storytelling, this is the right opportunity for you. Full workshop details, including testimonials from past participants, are available in the Training section and our Blog.

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Reminder: MediaStorm Internship Application Deadline on July 15th

Are you motivated, highly organized, and passionate about storytelling? We want to hear from you. There are only a few more days to apply for our Fall 2013 internship, running from September to December. Producers, interactive designers, developers, and motion graphics artists should submit their applications online by July 15th, 2013. Visit our Careers page and Blog for more information.

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Read more about the article Kick-start ‘Upstate Girls’

Kick-start ‘Upstate Girls’

For nearly a decade, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally has followed the lives of a group of young women living in Upstate New York. The stories of the women of Troy, NY are an intimate and powerful look at the cycle of class separation and economic inequality facing many Americans today. Working in collaboration with students at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW), Kenneally has been building a multi-platform documentary titled Upstate Girls to tell these stories. The project has now reached a point where its contributors’ hard work and good intentions need financial support. You can help them complete their work on Kickstarter. Background According to the 2010 census approximately 20% of the households in Troy are headed by single females. Their jobs have evolved from the factory work of the industrial revolution that earned Troy the name “Collar City” to the post industrial service sector…

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