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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Pictures of the Year International 2013 Awardees Announced

MediaStorm is honored to announce we have won second place in the Pictures of the Year International Best Website category. Other winners in this category were the Los Angeles Times, which won first place, and TIME, which won third place. It is always a pleasure and inspiration for us to see the best of the industry's work honored in the annual POYi competition and this year is no exception. Here are some highlights from this year's multimedia competition. The winner of the Documentary Project of the Year was Liz O. Baylen, Mary Vignoles, Scott Glover, Lisa Girion, Hailey Branson-Potts, Marc Duvoisin, Matt Lait, Megan Garvey, Stephanie Ferrell, Hailey Branson-Potts, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter, Maloy Moore, Armand Emamdjomeh, Lily Mihalik and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee of the Los Angeles Times for "Dying For Relief - A Times Investigation." MediaStorm Spring 2013 Interns, Joshua Davis and Jon Kasbe were part of the team that produced…

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Innovative Interactivity Offering Interactive Design Workshop

Innovative Interactivity has announced they will be putting on an Interactive Workshop to be held in May 2013. The workshop is designed for graphic designers and storytellers who want to learn how to build interactive graphics but have not had the time or training to do so. The intensive and hands-on bootcamp is project based and students learn HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript(jQuery) in five days. This intensive, five day, project-based learning environment, taught by top professionals and University of North Carolina professors will teach both technical skills and how to design for an interactive user experience. Be inspired by the special presentations from professionals from NBC, The Washington Post and Digital First Media. Participants will be immersed in the languages, tools and concepts of interactive design all while on the beautiful campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Each day students will produce publishable work that builds on each day’s concepts culminating in a…

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