CFR.org and MediaStorm win Emmy for Crisis Guide: Darfur

Crisis Guide: Darfur, produced for Council on Foreign Relations, is the recipient of the 2008 Emmy Award in the New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category. Other nominees in the category included: current.com: Mogadishu Madness msnbc.com: The Fight for Iraq Washingtonpost.com: A Nation Divided Washingtonpost.com: After the Destruction Washingtonpost.com: Living with PTSD Congratulations also to the San Jose Mercury News, who won in the Documentaries category for "Uprooted", and to the Detroit Free Press, who won in the Arts, Lifestyle and Culture Category for "40 Years of Respect" and the Regional News Coverage Category for "Pit bulls: Companions or killers?" Pictured from left to right are: Brian Storm, Jeremy Sherlick, Pamela Chen, Mike Moran, Stephanie Hanson and Tim Klimowicz.  Image by bryan-brown.com.

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ONA Announces Online Journalism Awards Winners

The Online News Association announced the winners of their annual Online Journalism Awards during their annual conference on September 13. Reuters.com/MediaStorm won the Multimedia Feature, Large Site: category for Bearing Witness, a collaborative site launched on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq war, featuring profiles of three Reuter’s journalists who have more than 23 years combined experience reporting and photographing in Iraq.   With nearly 800 entrants per category, these awards recognize the best in online journalism. Other categories and winners included: Knight Award for Public Service: WashingtonPost.com, Fixing D.C. Schools General Excellence, Small Site: ArmyTimes.com General Excellence, Medium Sites: LasVegasSun.com General Excellence, Large Site: CNN.com General Excellence (Non-English), Small Site: Soitu.es General Excellence (Non-English), Large Site: ELPAIS.com Breaking News, Medium Sites: STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkwood shootings Breaking News, Large Sites: NYTimes.com, Eliot Spitzer's resignation Investigative Journalism, Small Site: RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.) "I Didn't Do That Murder":…

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MediaStorm and Rocky Mountain News collaborate at DNC

At last! At last! A dream fulfilled. Barack Obama’s historic rise to the mountaintop at Denver’s Democratic National Convention. Forty-five years after Martin Luther King called on America to live out the true meaning of its creed – that all men are created equal ‑ a senator from Illinois becomes the first African-American nominee of a major political party. MediaStorm and the Rocky Mountain News collaborated during the Democratic National Convention to create At last, at last, a dream fulfilled, a multimedia presentation documenting the convention. The piece is a comprehensive overview, looking at all aspects leading up to, and including, the convention, and includes interviews with Colorado locals, Rocky Mountain News reporters, and other key figures. If you still want more after watching this piece, you can also check out the rest of Rocky Mountain News' convention coverage on their site.

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August Digital Journalist online

Ed Kashi's latest project, Curse of the Black Gold, is featured in this month's Digital Journalist.  The feature includes an introduction by Dirck Halstead, a gallery of images, and a video interview with Kashi. If you haven't seen this project yet, here's your chance. Another feature this month is on Walter Iooss' new release, Athlete. With introductions by Michael Jordan and Sports Illustrated Editor Terry McDonell, and extended commentary by Iooss interspersed throughout the gallery, this is a feature well worth checking out.

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MediaStorm Publishes Common Ground

Common Ground by Scott Strazzante On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home — the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois — was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into the new Willow Walk subdivision, their house just yards from where the Cagwin's home once stood. Common Ground introduces us to the lives touched by this land, as photographer Scott Strazzante takes us on a visual journey exploring the differences and similarities of these two families while simultaneously asking us to look at what is common among us all.

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