NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards 2013 Announced

MediaStorm is honored to announce we have won first place in the Best of Photojournalism Documentary Multimedia category for A Shadow Remains produced with Phillip Toledano. Former MediaStorm intern, Andrew Hida, took second place in this category for Follow My Steps. Third place went to "Gayla's Goodbye" by Dai Sugano for the San Jose Mercury News. The BoP Awards honored many excellent multimedia pieces this year. Alan Spearman and The Commercial Appeal swept the awards with "Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn't See," which won Best Use Of Multimedia, first place for Feature Multimedia Story and honorable mention for Multimedia Package. "Framework" by Albert Lee of the Los Angeles Times won first place in the Multimedia Package and the Visual Column, Recurring Series or Visual Blog categories. Follow My Steps won second place in the BoP Documentary Multimedia Category. In what BoP called "a deviation from normal judging," the panel honored a second…

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Worth Watching #97: As I Am

"Two blocks from the hood is a whole new world. But why? Is there a new world two blocks from the hood? More importantly, why is the hood two blocks from the world? I don't know anyone who can say that they walked in my shoes and made it out of the hood. Maybe that's why I'm afraid of the future." - Chris Dean As I Am is a must see film by Alan Spearman and cinematographer Mark Adams for The Commercial Appeal - Brian Storm As I Am from alan spearman on Vimeo. See other videos that we think are Worth Watching.

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