MediaStorm Hiring Summer 2013 Operations and Social Media Intern

MediaStorm is looking for a motivated, creative and detail-oriented intern to work with the operations and social media manager for Summer 2013. The intern will focus on writing for the MediaStorm blog, updating and maintaining our social media presences, creatively and strategically thinking about growing MediaStorm’s online community, assisting with contest submissions, and helping with other daily tasks as they come up. Qualifications The intern that we’re looking for has: experience writing for an online or print publication an interest in developing online communities the ability to work and research independently a strong interest in online journalism, storytelling and their respective evolutions a love of new technologies a compulsive need to correct typos a burning desire to learn and improve his or her work This internship is paid. The internship runs from May - August 2013. Exact start and end dates are flexible. To apply enter your cover letter, resume, links to…

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Brian Storm Speaking at SVA Public Lecture

MediaStorm founder and executive producer Brian Storm will be giving a free, public lecture on Multimedia Storytelling at the School of Visual Arts on March 26. Multimedia Storytelling at SVA Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7pm – 9pm 209 East 23rd Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10010 Free and open to the public See full event details. Event Description Brian Storm–founder of the award-winning production studio MediaStorm (mediastorm.org) and previously director of multimedia for msnbc.com and vice president of news, multimedia, and assignment services for Corbis, New York–discusses how storytelling continues to evolve as a result of technological innovations and an expanding media universe. The digital age has given filmmakers, photographers, and photojournalists extraordinary and unprecedented new ways to tell stories, as well as a greater level of authorship. How can the long-form, in-depth visual storyteller satisfy both their journalistic and financial needs in this environment? Learn how to disseminate your work…

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New European Journalism Centre Grant for Innovative Development Reporting

The European Journalism Centre (EJC), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is implementing a new 2013 grants program for innovative development reporting. The grant aims to advance creative reporting approaches to enable better coverage of international development issues in eight of the European countries with the highest net official development assistance. The grant will be awarded to a selection of innovative reporting projects to enable journalists, editors and development stakeholders to perform thorough research and to develop entirely new and experimental reporting and presentation methods. They will also be able to use multi-platform approaches and to think laterally across disciplines and techniques of journalistic storytelling. Application Details The program is looking for proposals from eminent media outlets focusing on the eight European countries with the highest development spending—France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Applicants must apply for a minimum grant of €8,000 with an expected average grant of about €20,000. A…

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