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MediaStorm Produces Gail Fisher’s Multimedia Project for LATimes.com

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:November 22, 2006

MediaStorm worked with award-winning Los Angeles Times Photojournalist Gail Fisher to produce a four-part multimedia series entitled Blighted Homeland for the newspaper's website. Excerpt from latimes.com: From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for America's atomic arsenal. Navajos inhaled radioactive dust, drank contaminated water and built homes using rock from the mines and mills. Many of the dangers persist to this day. This four-part series examines the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation.

Ed Kashi’s Iraqi Kurdistan Project Debuts on MSNBC.com

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:November 14, 2006

MSNBC.com published Ed Kashi and MediaStorm's Iraqi Kurdistan project on Tuesday. Iraqi Kurdistan is a timely, in-depth look into the daily lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. Thousands of Kashi’s images are presented in an innovative, flipbook-style animation. MSNBC.com won exclusive rights to publish the project via a private online auction conducted at mediastorm.org. Participants included news, lifestyle and arts publications from around the world. Read more about the Iraqi Kurdistan project in Photo District News Online.

MSNBC Wins Exclusive Multimedia Publishing Rights in MediaStorm’s
First Online Auction

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:November 2, 2006

MSNBC.com won exclusive internet rights to MediaStorm's production, Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi. The private online auction ran for four days and was conducted at http://mediastorm.org. Participants included news, lifestyle and arts publications from around the world. MSNBC.com will premiere the project on November 13th, 2006. Iraqi Kurdistan is an in-depth and timely look into the daily lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq presented in flipbook-style animation. "It's our goal at MediaStorm to produce innovative projects that exemplify the power of multimedia storytelling and place those productions with top-tier publications," said Brian Storm, President of MediaStorm. "The unique nature of this project and the streamlined process of the online auction allowed us to make that happen." Read more about this in American Photo's State of the Art. Image Caption: MSNBC.com Director of Multimedia Robert Hood (left) and Senior Media Producer Meredith Birkett place their winning bid for Iraqi Kuridsistan, MediaStorm's…

MediaStorm Wins Five W³ Awards

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:October 23, 2006

MediaStorm has received a Gold Award for Visual Appeal and Silver Awards for Broadband, Magazine, Video & Motion Graphics and Home Page from the prestigious W³ Awards. The W³ Awards honor creative excellence on the web and recognize the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites and marketing programs. The W³ is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. W³ Awards website: http://w3award.com/

MediaStorm Projects Included in “Overload: Photographing the Iraq War”

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:September 19, 2006

MediaStorm's Never Coming Home, by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac Barr, and a future MediaStorm project entitled "Iraqi Kurdistan," by Ed Kashi, have been chosen to be shown as part of the gallery show "Overload: Photographing the Iraq War." The show opens Sept. 30th in Johnson City, New York. The goal of the show is to bring a balance of strong photojournalism and multimedia about the Iraq war to a general audience in upstate New York Other journalists included in the show are Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Benjamin Lowy, Lucian Read and Stefan Zaklin. More information about the show and the venue is available online or by contacting the curator Stokes Young at stokes.young@gmail.com.