Coming Soon: The War Comes Home

MediaStorm is proud to announce The War Comes Home, our first collaboration with Soledad O'Brien's Starfish Media Group, will debut on CNN on Tuesday, August 12th, 2014 at 9 p.m. EST and will encore at 12:00 a.m. EST, and on Sunday, August 17th at 7:00 p.m. EST. A recent study found that one in five veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffers from post traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, or severe depression. Our film follows two of these men - Delon Beckett and Garrett Combs. Both suffer from post-traumatic stress, and both have decided they need a drastic change in their life, one that they can’t address on their own. Their hope for change comes from an organization called Save a Warrior. Founded by retired veteran Jake Clark, this five-and-half-day program claims it has found an answer. With families and communities hanging in the balance, The War Comes Home, is an…

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Worth Clicking: Time Travel Photography, Getting Unstuck and Going Viral

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this weekend. Cheers! 1981's view of the internet. [Wimp.com] Chino Otsuka's Imagine Finding Me is time traveling photography. [Viralnova] Sundance 2014's 1860s-style portraits of the stars. [Esquire] How to navigate stuckness. [Transom] The six things that make stories go viral will amaze and infuriate you. [The New Yorker] Dan Benjamin's Podcasting Equipment Guide gives all the basic gear and software you'll need to podcast at a variety of levels. [The Podcasting Handbook] 10 simple tools every digital newsroom should be using in 2014. [NewsWhip Blog] Good distribution advice for 2014. [Stranger Than Fiction] All five Oscar nominated documentaries are streaming online. [Tribeca Film] The big fast list of documentaries about photography. [PetaPixel]

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Worth Clicking: New Year’s Edition

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this new year. Cheers!

Looking Back and Ahead

  • The New York Times’ epic year in interactive storytelling. [New York Times]
  • 2013 in visual storytelling and data projects. [ProPublica]
  • Nieman Journalism Lab asks media experts to predict what 2014 will bring to journalism. [Nieman Lab]

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Worth Clicking: NYC Documentaries, Interactive Highrises, and Janis Joplin

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this weekend. Cheers! Portraits of soldiers before, during, and after war [My Modern Met] The 10 best documentaries about New York City [NonFics] Janis Joplin on rejection: “You are what you settle for.” [YouTube] “When you do something guaranteed to succeed, you close the door to the possibility of discovery.” [LifeHacker] How should we judge the best multimedia? [News Shooter] American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. [ACE-filmeditors.org] You know your film is making a difference when…. Ellen Schneider fills in the blank. [ARTSblog] 105 vital sources for journalists in the new media landscape [Journalism Degrees and Programs] An amazing interactive history of the rise of highrises in New York [New York Times] And how could we resist....Bohemian Rhapsody arranged for a symphony orchestra [YouTube]

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