This video, Ira Glass on Storytelling #1, is the first part in a four-part series available on YouTube in which Ira Glass, host of National Public Radio's This American Life, discusses the essential building blocks of a good broadcast story. The following are links to each part in the series: Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 Ira Glass on Storytelling #2 Ira Glass on Storytelling #3 Ira Glass on Storytelling #4
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explantory Reporting for their print and online multimedia series Altered Oceans. The description of the award on the Pulizer site notes that the team was recognized for their "richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials."
FRONTLINE's special four-part series "News War" examines the challenges facing today's mainstream media and how print, broadcast and electronic news organizations are struggling with, and adjusting to, these new challenges. If you missed the original television broadcast you can watch the full series online. FRONTLINE's site also offers extended interviews and other supplemental material not included in the broadcast. From the FRONTLINE site: In a four-part special series, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. Through interviews with key figures in print, broadcast and electronic media over the past four decades -- and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today's most important news organizations, FRONTLINE traces the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press, to the new challenges presented by the…
MediaStorm has been nominated for the 11th Annual Webby Awards in the Magazine and Broadband categories and has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Best Home/Welcome Page category. In addtion, Slate Magazine has been nominated in the News/Documentary/Public Service category for Never Coming Home, a project produced by MediaStorm. MediaStorm has also been nominated for the The People's Voice Awards, which allows people around the world to vote on the nominees that are their favorites. Unlike other Awards shows where self-promotion is frowned upon, the Webby Awards encourages its Nominees to campaign for People's Voice votes, adding to the fun and spirit that personifies the Webby. You can vote for MediaStorm online. About the Webby Awards: Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and…
MediaStorm worked with award-winning photojournalist Nina Berman to produce a story entitled Soldier's Boy for AARP Bulletin. The story chronicles the parents of a fallen soldier as they struggle to raise the young son she left behind without the financial benefit the government normally gives to next-of-kin.