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MediaStorm projects nominated for three Emmy Awards

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:July 15, 2010

MediaStorm is thrilled to announce that three of our 2009 projects have been nominated for the 31st Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary. Driftless: Stories from Iowa, by Danny Wilcox Frazier, was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries Category. Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories. Times of Crisis was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category. In Times of Crisis, Reuters charts 365 days of global financial upheaval to see how lives have changed as a divergent world embarks on an era of historic challenge. Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope was also nominated in the New Approaches to…

MediaStorm’s Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier wins Webby Award for Best Editing/Online Film and Video

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:May 4, 2010

The 14th Annual Webby Awards today named MediaStorm's Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier as the winner in the Best Editing/Online Film and Video Category. MediaStorm will be honored at a star-studded ceremony hosted by B.J. Novak of NBC's "The Office" on June 14th in New York City. On June 15th, fans will be able to watch the ceremony at the official Webby Awards YouTube Channel. A full list of both Webby Awards and People's Voice Awards winners can be found here. Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Martha Stewart, R/GA's Chief Bob Greenberg, David Bowie, Arianna Huffington and Twitter's…

Intended Consequences named as first web winner of Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:January 14, 2010

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2010 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. MediaStorm is honored to be the first web recipient of a duPont Award, for Intended Consequences, by Jonathan Torgovnik. From their site: In painfully intimate interviews photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik explores an unfathomable question: can a mother can love a child born out of rape. The women profiled in this haunting multimedia presentation were caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when mass rapes resulted in the birth of an estimated 20,000 children. It spotlights an issue which had not been as widely covered as other war crimes in Rwanda, and is the first Web-based production to win a duPont Award. The women speak simply about their brutal experiences, their isolation and suffering, and the way forward. The producers made excellent creative choices that contributed to the impact of the reporting without resorting to sensationalism. The…

Intended Consequences wins Anthropographia Award for Multimedia and Human Rights

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:January 14, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik has won The Anthropographia Award for Multimedia and Human Rights. Congratulations also to Marcus Bleasdale, whose still project The Rape of a Nation won the The Anthropographia Award for Photography and Human Rights. The multimedia piece, produced by MediaStorm, also received an Honorary Mention. Anthropographia’s aim is to create new spaces for photojournalism; new spaces that encourage the promotion of human rights, expose social injustice and underline the multiple realities of our current world. The jury shortlisted 24 photography essays as well as 10 multimedia pieces which will be displayed on large scale exhibitions internationally. Projects will be screened at the New York Photo Festival, and at several other locations. Full listing, along with all of the winners, on the Anthropographia site.

CFR.org and MediaStorm win Emmy for Crisis Guide: The Global Economy

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:December 9, 2009

Crisis Guide: The Global Economy, produced for Council on Foreign Relations, is the recipient of the 2009 Emmy Award for New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting. Other nominees in the category included: CNBC.com: Boom, Bust & Blame CBS.com: The Fast Draw The Wall Street Journal Digital Network: Mongolian Way of Life at Risk Congratulations to all of the winners. Pictured from left to right are: Jacky Myint, Michael Moran, Brian Storm, Eric Maierson, Jeremy Sherlick, Lee Hudson Teslik. Image by bryan-brown.com.