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ONA Announces Online Journalism Awards Winners

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:September 14, 2008

The Online News Association announced the winners of their annual Online Journalism Awards during their annual conference on September 13. Reuters.com/MediaStorm won the Multimedia Feature, Large Site: category for Bearing Witness, a collaborative site launched on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq war, featuring profiles of three Reuter’s journalists who have more than 23 years combined experience reporting and photographing in Iraq. With nearly 800 entrants per category, these awards recognize the best in online journalism. Other categories and winners included: Knight Award for Public Service: WashingtonPost.com, Fixing D.C. Schools General Excellence, Small Site: ArmyTimes.com General Excellence, Medium Sites: LasVegasSun.com General Excellence, Large Site: CNN.com General Excellence (Non-English), Small Site: Soitu.es General Excellence (Non-English), Large Site: ELPAIS.com Breaking News, Medium Sites: STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkwood shootings Breaking News, Large Sites: NYTimes.com, Eliot Spitzer's resignation Investigative Journalism, Small Site: RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.) "I Didn't Do That Murder":…

MediaStorm Projects nominated for two Emmy Awards

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:July 16, 2008

Two MediaStorm produced projects are among the Nominees announced yesterday for the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Crisis Guide: Darfur, produced for Council on Foreign Relations, was nominated in the New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category. The Darfur guide is the second in a series of interactive guides to the most complex issues and conflicts on the planet. The six-chapter project includes a multimedia narrative, interactive maps and timelines, and extensive information on the situation in Darfur. The Marlboro Marine, produced with The Los Angeles Times, was nominated in the New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries Category. Los Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco's photograph of Marine Lance Corporal James Blake Miller became an icon of the Iraq War. This is the story of how Miller tries to heal the scars of war and how two lives became connected by a photograph.…

MediaStorm Wins Webby Awards

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:May 15, 2008

We are proud to announce that MediaStorm has won the prestigious 2008 Webby Award in the News and Politics: Individual Episode category for Brenda Ann Kenneally's Finding the Way Home. MediaStorm also produced Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster, which won in the Charitable Organizations Nonprofit category. 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 Mobile Websites. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

MediaStorm projects nominated for five Webby Awards

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:April 9, 2008

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. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states. From now through May 1st, fans around the world can register and cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com. Of course, we'd love for you to vote for these projects: WEBSITE ENTRIES: Category: BROADBAND MediaStorm Category: CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS NONPROFIT Katrina: An Unnatural DisasterOpen Society Institute / Produced by MediaStorm ONLINE FILM AND VIDEO ENTRIES: Category: NEWS & POLITICS: INDIVIDUAL EPISODE Finding the Way Home by Brenda Ann Kenneally MediaStorm Category: PUBLIC SERVICE AND ACTIVISM Eyes on ZimbabweOpen Society Institute / Produced by MediaStorm Category: BEST WRITING Evidence of My Existence by Jim Lo Scalzo US News & World Report / Also on MediaStorm.org …

NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism 2008 Winners Announced

Post author:Jessica Stuart
Post published:April 1, 2008

The judging for the NPPA's 2008 Best of Photojournalism Awards was completed this past weekend. We are excited to announce that MediaStorm.org placed in three categories: First Place, Documentary Video: "Black Market" Patrick Brown / MediaStorm.org Second Place, Feature Audio Slideshow: "The Ninth Floor" Jessica Dimmock / MediaStorm.org Third Place, Best Multimedia Package: "Black Market" Patrick Brown / MediaStorm.org Additionally, MediaStorm Multimedia Producer Chad A. Stevens placed First in the Feature Video Category for "Kentucky Reptile Zoo", and was also a part of the Soul of Athens Project, which won First Place for Best Multimedia Package, Second Place for Documentary Video, for "Be Not Afraid", and Second Place, Feature Video, for "Surgery of the Soul". Congratulations to all of the BOP winners.