Awards

MediaStorm has been honored with numerous accolades for achievement in filmmaking, multimedia storytelling and interactive design including:

1 Edward R. Murrow award

2 Overseas Press Club of America awards

2 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards

7 World Press Photo nominations / 3 time winner

7 Online Journalism Awards nominations / 3 time winner

17 Emmy nominations / 4 time winner

30 Webby nominations / 6 time winner

52 Pictures of the Year International & NPPA's Best of Photojournalism awards

Winner

Outstanding Documentary/Nonfiction Programming for Broadband:

• Kingsley's Crossing

New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage:

• Crisis Guide: Iran for Council on Foreign Relations
• Crisis Guide: Darfur for Council on Foreign Relations

New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting:

• Crisis Guide: The Global Economy for Council on Foreign Relations

Nominee

New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries:

• Undesired
• A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan
• Driftless: Stories from Iowa
• Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations
• The Marlboro Marine
• Intended Consequences
• BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family

New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture:

• Hungry Horse
• Airsick

New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage:

• Japan's Disposable Workers for Pulitzer Center
• Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Times of Crisis for Thomson Reuters
• Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War for Thomson Reuters

Website: National Online News Organization: MediaStorm

Excellence in Broadcast Journalism:

• Intended Consequences
• Undesired

Best Use of Multimedia: Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations

Web: Online General Excellence: Crisis Guide: Iran for Council on Foreign Relations

Winner

Documentary: Series: 2013 ICP Infinity Awards for Harbers Studios and International Center of Photography

Best Editing/Online Film and Video: Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Documentary: Individual Episode: Intended Consequences

News & Politics: Individual Episode: Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina

Charitable Organizations Nonprofit: Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster for Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network

Magazine: MediaStorm

Finalist

Websites: Best User Experience: Connected to the Top for Verse

Nominee

Documentary: Individual Episode:

• When the Water Ends for Yale Environment 360
• A Thousand More

Online Film & Video: Drama: Individual Short or Episode: The Long Night

Public Service and Activism: Undesired

News & Politics: Individual Episode: Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War for Thomson Reuters

Best Writing: Evidence of My Existence

Broadband: MediaStorm

News/Documentary/Public Service: Never Coming Home

Honoree

Documentary: Individual Episode:

• Swan Song for Neighborhood Centers Inc.
• Rite of Passage
• Take Care

Public Service and Activism:

• The Ninth Floor
• Surviving the Peace: Laos for MAG America
• Surviving the Peace: Angola for MAG America

Online Film & Video: Drama: Individual Short or Episode: Inside Tracks for Against All Odds

News and Politics: Individual Episode: Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations

Rich Media: Non-profit/Educational: Global Governance Monitor for Council on Foreign Relations

Best Use of Photography: MediaStorm

Animation: Low Morale: Creep

Best Editing: Common Ground

Reality: Love in the First Person

Best Home/Welcome Page: MediaStorm

Broadband: MediaStorm

1st

Long Feature: The Long Night

3rd

Long Feature: Japan's Disposable Workers: Net Cafe Refugees for Pulitzer Center

Multimedia Contest: Online Feature: Swan Song for Neighborhood Centers Inc.

Nominee

Multimedia Contest: Linear Productions

• Mr. Blues
• Undesired
• When the Water Ends for Yale Environment 360
• Take Care

Winner

Documentary Project of the Year:

• The Long Night
• Times of Crisis for Thomson Reuters

Finalist

Documentary Project of the Year:

• A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan
• Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War for Thomson Reuters

1st

Multimedia Photographer of the Year: Andrew Michael Ellis / MediaStorm

Multimedia Issue Reporting Story: Undesired

Best Multimedia News Story or Essay: The Sandwich Generation

Best Use of Multimedia - Small Markets: MediaStorm

2nd

Best Website

: MediaStorm

Documentary Project of the Year: Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Best Multimedia Project: The Marlboro Marine

Multimedia Feature Story: Gorilla Massacre for National Geographic

Best Multimedia News Story or Essay: BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family

3rd

Documentary Journalism: The Last Move

Editing Division / Interactive Publication: Small Media: MediaStorm

Award of Excellence

Multimedia Issue Reporting Story: Life After Water

Feature Multimedia Story: A Thousand More

Long Form Documentary: A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

Best Use - Online Publication: MediaStorm

Multimedia Issue Reporting Story: Intended Consequences

Best Multimedia Project: Black Market

Multimedia Feature Story: Evidence of My Existence

1st

Documentary Multimedia Story:

• A Shadow Remains
• The Long Night

Feature Video:

• Common Ground
• A Thousand More
• Family Kocktail

Documentary Video:

• Black Market
• Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining for Yale Environment 360

Best Use of the Web: The Long Night

News or Feature Multimedia Package: Times of Crisis for Thomson Reuters

Still Photo: Returning Veterans Coming Home: Never Coming Home

Best Multimedia Package: Kingsley's Crossing

2nd

Documentary Video: Rape of a Nation

News or Feature Multimedia Package: Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Thomson Reuters Foundation

3rd

Documentary Video

:

• Intended Consequences
• Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Feature Multimedia Package: WSJ Innovator: Karl Ove Knausgaard for WSJ. Magazine

Multimedia Portfolio: Andrew Michael Ellis / MediaStorm

News or Feature Multimedia Package: Life, death and the Taliban for GlobalPost

Feature Audio Slideshow: The Ninth Floor

Best Multimedia Package:

• BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family
• Friends for Life

Honorable Mention

Documentary Multimedia Story: Swan Song for Neighborhood Centers Inc.

Visual Column: 2013 ICP Infinity Awards for Harbers Studios and International Center of Photography

Best Use of the Web: A Thousand More

Feature Video: Hold Out

Feature Multimedia Story: Surviving the Peace: Laos for MAG America

Multimedia Package: The Gulf Spill for Oil Spill Commission

Best Multimedia Package: Black Market

Winner

Multimedia Feature Presentation, Small Site

Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations

Online Video Journalism, Small Site

• Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining for Yale Environment 360
• Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Multimedia Feature: Large Site: Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War for Thomson Reuters

Finalist

Online Video Journalism, Small Site

When the Water Ends for Yale Environment 360

General Excellence in Online Journalism: MediaStorm

Online Video Journalism, Small Site: Take Care

Nominee: Outstanding Documentary - Television: The War Comes Home for CNN and Starfish Media Group

Winner: Spotlight: MediaStorm

Award of Excellence: VF3: Film/Video - Charitable/Non-profit: Lost and Found: The Story of Refugees United for Refugees United

Winner

Multimedia and Human Rights: Intended Consequences

Honorable Mention

A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

Undesired

When the Water Ends for Yale Environment 360

BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family

Rape of a Nation

1st

Multimedia:

• Take Care
• A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan
• A Thousand More

2nd

Multimedia: Broken Lines

Award of Excellence

New Media, Documentary

• Intended Consequences
• Iraqi Kurdistan

Honorable Mention

New Media, Documentary:

• The Sandwich Generation
• Rite of Passage
• Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Winning Submission: A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

Nominee: Web Documentaries: Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations

Features: Quarterly Winner

• Common Ground
• Intended Consequences

Features: Monthly Winner: February

• Black Market
• Rape of a Nation

Features: Monthly Winner: March

• Never Coming Home
• Love in the First Person

Features: Monthly Winner: January

• Friends for Life

Features: February

• Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina

Features: June

• Iraqi Kurdistan
• BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family
• Never Coming Home

Bronze

Non-Breaking Features: Intended Consequences

Award of Excellence

Use of Multimedia: Crisis Guide: Pakistan for Council on Foreign Relations

Non-Breaking Features: Common Ground

Video: Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining for Yale Environment 360

Best Web Special Feature: News or Event: Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Thomson Reuters Foundation

Web Documentaries:

• Times of Crisis for Thomson Reuters
• Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Thomson Reuters Foundation

Gold: Documentary/Nonfiction: MediaStorm

Silver: Magazine/News: MediaStorm

Gold

Magazine: MediaStorm

Silver

Broadband: MediaStorm

Home Page: MediaStorm

Magazine: MediaStorm

Video & Motion Graphics: MediaStorm