MediaStorm has been awarded First Place, Best News Picture Story - Independent Sites for Never Coming Home and Third Place, Best Multimedia Package - Independent Sites for Friends for Life by the National Press Photographer Association's prestigious Best of Photojournalism 2006 competition. A complete list of a winners is available online. NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2006 website: http://bop.nppa.org/2006/
It Ain't Television... It's Brain Surgery by Ray Farkas It Ain't Television.... It's Brain Surgery is a courageous and humorous first-person account of Emmy award-winning producer Ray Farkas' life-changing brain surgery procedure intended to reduce the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease. Chernobyl Legacy by Paul Fusco On April 26, 1986, the greatest environmental catastrophe in history occurred at Chernobyl spreading a radioactive cloud over large parts of the former Soviet Union. In Chernobyl Legacy, Magnum photographer Paul Fusco recounts the human aftermath of the tragedy.
MediaStorm is a multimedia production studio based in New York City and collaborating virtually with creative resources around the globe. MediaStorm's principal aim is to usher in a new era of multimedia storytelling, via our publication and our industry-leading production and consulting services. We are seeking candidates for positions as interactive designer, multimedia producer and project manager. See the job descriptions.
MediaStorm has been awarded third place for Interactive Publication - Small Media by the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition. A complete list of a winners is available online. POYi website: http://www.poy.org/
Date and Location: May 6-12, 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Description: The Multimedia Bootcamp Workshop is designed for working visual journalists who are interested in exploring multimedia storytelling. There will be six days of intensive skills training, including Flash, Dreamweaver, advanced Photoshop and audio and video content gathering and editing, as well as daily presentations from leading multimedia designers, storytellers and producers. Complete details and the registration form are available online. Multimedia Bootcamp website: http://www.ibiblio.org/bootcamp