{"id":6097,"date":"2012-03-16T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2012-03-16T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:52:37","slug":"2012-media-for-liberty-award-honors-mediastorm-for-a-darkness-visible-afghanistan-by-seamus-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/2012-media-for-liberty-award-honors-mediastorm-for-a-darkness-visible-afghanistan-by-seamus-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Media for Liberty Award Honors MediaStorm for &#8220;A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan&#8221; by Seamus Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4303\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, Seamus Murphy, MediaStorm\" href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\">A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan<\/a><\/em>, by <a title=\"Seamus Murphy, MediaStorm Contributor\" href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/contributor\/seamus-murphy\/636\" target=\"_blank\">Seamus Murphy<\/a>, was selected by the <a title=\"Media for Liberty Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymedia.com\/media-for-liberty-award.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Media for Liberty Award<\/a> jury panel as the winning submission for the third annual Media for Liberty Award, a $50,000 journalism prize that recognizes media contributions that examine the link between economic and political liberty.\u00a0\u00a0Print, broadcast and online submissions were judged on criteria including thematic relevance, educational value and relevance to the public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a powerful story that unfolds over fourteen years and illustrates the physical, emotional and economic toll the years of political instability took on an average Afghan family,\u201d said John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media. \u201cOn behalf of the jury panel, we congratulate Seamus Murphy and MediaStorm for producing an educative and compelling piece that stood out among this year\u2019s entries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Media for Liberty Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymedia.com\/media-for-liberty-award.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read<\/a> more about the Media for Liberty Award, and <a title=\"A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, Seamus Murphy, MediaStorm\" href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/a-darkness-visible-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\">watch<\/a> the winning film, <em>A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, by Seamus Murphy, was selected by the Media for Liberty Award jury panel as the winning submission for the third annual Media for Liberty Award, a $50,000 journalism prize that recognizes media contributions that examine the link between economic and political liberty.\u00a0\u00a0Print, broadcast and online submissions were judged on criteria including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}