MediaStorm is thrilled to announce that three of our 2009 projects have been nominated for the 31st Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary.

 
Driftless: Stories from Iowa, by Danny Wilcox Frazier, was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries Category.

Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.

 
Times of Crisis was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category.

In Times of Crisis, Reuters charts 365 days of global financial upheaval to see how lives have changed as a divergent world embarks on an era of historic challenge.

 
Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope was also nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category.

Combining imagery by Reuters photojournalists with eyewitness testimony and interactive graphics, Surviving the Tsunami reveals the strength of the human spirit in the face of catastrophe.

Winners will be announced on Monday, September 27, in New York City. See the Emmy Award website for a full list of nominees.