Read more about the article New Stories from the November 2012 MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop

New Stories from the November 2012 MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop

We are pleased to launch two new stories produced in the November 2012 MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop. In our November 2012 Storytelling Workshop a team of journalists collaborated with MediaStorm to create, The American-Made Benny and Luv Schtick. During the MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop participants work directly with MediaStorm staff to create an intimate, character-driven documentary in just one week. Benny is a “certified” garbologist. He collects what others throw away. Benny is also at war with his family. Here is a man sharing a house with his wife but living as a stranger. This is a household on the edge. Read the accompanying blog post, "The Challenge of The American-Made Benny." Dani Luv is a musician and comedian at the well-known Sammy’s Roumanian Restaurant in New York. Luv likes to sing classics from the likes of Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong. We are currently accepting applications for two upcoming MediaStorm Storytelling Workshops in…

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Read more about the article The Challenge of The American-Made Benny

The Challenge of The American-Made Benny

We had numerous challenges in reporting, producing, and in making the decision to ultimately publish this story. We feel this story is incomplete due to access issues and time constraints inherent with MediaStorm's approach to a workshop story. Sometimes you can learn as much from your shortcomings as from your successes. As such, we hope this will serve as an important case study about the ethics of storytelling. - Brian Storm, Executive Producer, MediaStorm Unanswered Questions: On the Limits of the Single-Subject Interview by Eric Maierson By any measure, the MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop is an intense week. It is a product-focused experience, meaning that unlike in other teaching environments we are wholly focused on producing the most compelling story possible, one that demonstrates the collective skills of the participants and the MediaStorm staff. The week consists of one day of lectures, three days in the field, and another three days editing. Workshop…

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New MediaStorm-ICRC Release: I Know Where I’m Going

We are pleased to release I Know Where I'm Going, our most recent client project produced with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The goal of this piece was to better inform North American law and policy audiences about the work of ICRC in a key operational context of growing interest to the military and foreign policy deciders the organization interacts with daily. Hussein Saleh, a uniquely positioned Yemeni ICRC staff member and the subject of the story, was hit by shrapnel from an airstrike shortly after the coverage was completed. His tragic death added an unwelcome dimension to the project, which also became a tribute and a record of his dedication to humanitarianism for his colleagues in Aden, for the organization as a whole and for his family in particular. Despite these difficult circumstances, I Know Where I'm Going remains part of a strategy to inform North American policymakers…

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The 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards; 10/1/12

MediaStorm Receives Fourth Emmy

Photo: Katie Sedgwick, Robert Mcmahon, Jeremy Sherlick, Toni Johnson, Hagit Bachrach and Brian Storm accept Emmy for Crisis Guide: Iran. Photo by Marc Bryan-Brown Photography. We are proud to announce the Council on Foreign Relations and MediaStorm have received an Emmy for Crisis Guide: Iran. The Crisis Guide was awarded in the category for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage in the 33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, produced with photographer Seamus Murphy of VII photo agency, was also nominated in the New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries category. Crisis Guide: Iran Drawing on the insights of more than twenty-five leading analysts, government officials, and journalists, Crisis Guide: Iran explores the issues and challenges faced by Iran, and offers a range of expert opinions on the policy options for addressing them. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan…

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‘A Thousand More’ Receives Casey Medal Honorable Mention

MediaStorm's A Thousand More received an honorable mention in the 2012 competition for the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism about the lives of children, youth and families in the U.S. A Thousand More tells the story of a family determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child – with a seemingly endless supply of love – is the blessing that holds the family together. The judges honored the film saying, "Produced from start to finish over a single week, this piece is a magnificent, nuanced and soulful story about a family’s devotion to their child who is living with a fatal genetic disease. An inspiring and memorable account that gives the viewer the time and space to breathe and think and smile and cry." The Casey Medals are a project of the Journalism Center on Children and Families at…

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