Robert Browman is an Emmy Award-winning producer, editor and journalist.
He returned to MediaStorm in October 2022 after spending a decade at the Albuquerque Journal, the largest daily newspaper in New Mexico, where he served as the paper’s Digital Editor, running a team of crime and breaking news reporters and pursuing long-form multimedia stories on a variety of topics, including immigration, police violence and wildfires.
While at the paper, he spent five years investigating and writing about the still-unsolved West Mesa serial murders with reporting partner Nicole Perez, winning multiple awards and appearing together on national broadcast as experts on the case.
Most recently, he was the Journal’s Director of Photography.
Browman is a proud original member of the MediaStorm team, where he worked with Founder Brian Storm to launch the company in 2004 and served as Senior Producer until 2008, helping to build the publication from the ground up and produce projects for clients such as MSNBC, Council on Foreign Relations, Open Society Institute and the Rocky Mountain News.
He spent the two years prior to MediaStorm at the picture agency Corbis in New York City as Senior Editor for News, helping to build and support a team of world-class photojournalists fulfilling assignments from industry-leading publications such as Time, Newsweek and Paris Match during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and helping to architect and deploy an agency-wide digital workflow for ingesting and managing images.
Before moving to New York, Browman spent three-and-a-half years in Seattle at MSNBC.com as a Multimedia Producer, first working on the fast-paced, 24-hour daily news desk, and then as part of the special projects team producing long-form, award-winning multimedia packages, along with the renowned Week in Pictures feature.
Browman began his career at the Albuquerque Journal in 1996, where he worked for nearly three years, first as a photographer, then as an Online Producer working to develop new methods of storytelling on what was then a burgeoning form of distribution - the Internet.
While at MediaStorm, he won an Emmy Award and was nominated for another, and his work was awarded three times by the Webby Awards, which the New York Times hails as the “Oscars of the Internet”.
In addition, his work has been recognized five times by the prestigious International Academy of Visual Arts W3 Awards, and he has received eight awards from the Pictures of the Year International competition, eight awards from the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition, and two from the Horizon Interactive Awards.
While at the Journal, he received dozens of regional and national awards, including an EPPY Award for his work on a multimedia project detailing the Albuquerque Police Department’s pattern and practice of shooting and killing unarmed citizens, a national Inland Press award for a multimedia project documenting the plight of asylum seekers at the southern border, a Public Service award for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2017 he and Perez received New Mexico’s highest journalism writing award for their reporting on the West Mesa Murders case.
In addition to MediaStorm, his work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS, National Geographic TV, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, Discovery Channel, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Open Society Institute, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among many other publications.
Browman received a degree in journalism in 1996 from the University of Florida and is a proud alumnus of the Independent Florida Alligator student newspaper staff.
Brow's Project Showcase
Tim Obert has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12. But regulations aimed at saving whales and salmon in California leave him struggling to find balance between his dream, his family’s needs and the industry he loves.
Melissa, a single mother from California, suddenly lost her vision. Her disability makes Melissa dual eligible, meaning she qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Ann lives in a home for women with developmental disabilities. Bound to a wheelchair and non-verbal, Ann’s disabilities make her dual eligible, meaning she qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Zora J Muff sees himself as an artist who happens to be Black living in a society that believes in race. His work shines a light on white supremacy, and has been honored with ICP’s 2023 Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism.
Poulomi Basu’s work employs multiple visual mediums to confront misogyny, oppression, abuse and climate injustice. The ICP has recognized Basu’s work with the the 2023 Infinity Award for Contemporary Photography & New Media.
Ming Smith moved to New York City to be a model, but her passion for photography and commitment to shining a light on Black culture has led to a distinguished photographic career. Smith is the winner of ICP’s 2023 Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement.
David Campany tells of his lifelong love affair with photography and photo books, exploring some of his favorites and discussing why they are culturally and artistically important.
MediaStorm was commissioned to produce a short film about the importance of photo books to be screened at an International Center of Photography event that was just two months away. How did MediaStorm producers approach these challenges?
Forty-five years after Martin Luther King called on America to live out the true meaning of its creed - that all men are created equal - a senator from Illinois becomes the first African-American nominee of a major political party.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana, photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally returns to find those who are headed home. Amid jobs lost, communities scattered, and houses destroyed, what does it take to rebuild a life?
A multimedia look at the decade of social, political and cultural upheaval, and how events from that era continue to influence today's generation.
Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula provides comprehensive background information on the Korean crisis and is driven by in-depth reporting via CFR experts. It is the first in a series of interactive guides to the most complex crises, issues and conflicts on the planet.