Never Coming Home book launch and update

Beginning in the summer of 2004, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein and audio producer Zac Barr began interviewing American families who had lost a loved one in Iraq. Their stories, along with intimate photographs of the military funerals and the families, are told in Never Coming Home, originally published on MediaStorm in 2005. Previously seen in many major media publications, Andrew's award-winning images are now available in a book compilation, published this fall. The book launch for Never Coming Home will be on Monday, October 29, 6:30-8:00pm, at The Bubble Lounge, 228 West Broadway, NYC. Additional stories from the project will be premiering that day on MediaStorm.

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Eddie Adams Workshop Multimedia Presentations

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Each year, a few students are selected to not only shoot still images, but record audio as well. Each photographer works intensively with the multimedia team led by Brian Storm and Tom Kennedy to produce a full audio-visual piece within two days. The multimedia team included Robert Browman, Bob Sacha, Diane Cook, Jim Seida, Chad Stevens, Seth Gitner, Kainaz Amaria, Tim Klimowicz, Greg Harris, Miki Meek, Coburn Dukehart, Pauline Bartolone and Bob Croslin. See the projects on the Eddie Adams Workshop site.

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Truth With A Camera

The Cliff and Vi Edom Truth With A Camera Workshop recently wrapped up its 13th year, with 24 photojournalists spending a week in and around Norfolk, VA, taking stories from conception to final production. This year, the students worked with both still images and audio to create multimedia presentations on topics ranging from a fisherman, military life and a local drive-in restaurant to teen pregnancy. All of the presentations from the Workshop are available online.

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CFR’s Crisis Guides Finalist in Knight-Batten Awards

CFR.org's Crisis Guides are a finalist for the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The Council on Foreign Relations produces these guides on crisis zones, providing interactive news and information to help make sense of these issues. MediaStorm has worked with CFR as a co-producer on these Guides, which include one on The Korean Peninsula and another on Darfur. Award Winners will be announced on September 17, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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Living to the End: Lovelle Svart’s Story

Lovelle Svart has cancer. Lovelle, a former news researcher for the Oregonian, has been fighting lung cancer for almost 5 years, and her doctors say she now has six months or less to live. She is sharing her story and experience with the Oregonian, via weekly video updates. It is an interesting, very personal way to give voice to a member of the community. Multimedia Journalist Rob Finch and Reporter Don Colburn are working with Lovell to share her story.

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