The Los Angeles Times photo department is seeking a visual journalist for a position in the company's Metpro program. Metpro is a unique diversity program designed to help beginning journalists launch careers in the media industry. The Los Angeles Times is seeking high-potential, highly motivated aspiring visual journalists with diverse backgrounds or life experiences. The program's main thrust is to provide participants--recent college graduates or journalists with limited professional experience--the training and support necessary to put them on a fast track to success. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2012. Interested applicants should contact Sr. Photo Editor Robert St. John via email at robert.stjohn@latimes.com with resumes, references and links to their work.

UnionDocs, a center for documentary art in Brooklyn, NY, will host a workshop in transmedia storytelling with five artists, game designers and storytellers to showcase and discuss their exploration and development of innovative approaches to visual storytelling. As interest in transmedia has grown over the past couple years, many misconceptions and lack of understanding surround it. Join in the public discussion with Designer Takaaki Okada (ConditionONE), game designer Nick Fortugno (Diner Dash), new media strategist Brian Newman (sub-genre), filmmakers Amam Ali and Bassam Tariq (30 Mosques), and producer and strategist John Bruce (Forward Mapworks) as they shed light on their emergent work that utilizes a transmedia approach. Hear how projects are produced, campaigns initiated, and business models developed  through case studies and critical discussion. The event will take place on Sunday, January 29th at 4:00 pm at UnionDocs. Visit their website for further information on the event.

MediaStorm is now offering one day multimedia storytelling workshops in Brooklyn, NY. Saturday, February 18, 2012 Saturday, March 17, 2012 These one-day workshops provide an overview of multimedia storytelling approaches while engaging participants in discussion about the most appropriate ways to create a multimedia story. Through real world examples, Brian Storm will share tips and techniques to improve reporting and editing and discuss the most effective tools for specific jobs. This workshop is designed for anyone interested in multimedia storytelling, no experience is necessary. We will be looking primarily at multimedia methodology and theory- this is not a workshop to learn how to use your new audio recorder- it’s a workshop where you will be asked to look deeper, into the when and why of different storytelling techniques and approaches. For more information, please visit this page.

The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri will host the Digital Storytelling Summit from March 4-6. In preparation to launch their own digital storytelling program, Mizzou has gathered an all-star lineup of industry leaders in advertising, feature film, documentary, and photojournalism to look at how they are transforming storytelling through the innovative use of emerging digital formats. This will be an exciting exploration of the changing landscape of traditional storytelling over an informative and inspirational three days. The full line up of speakers includes: José Azel, Ira Baker, Charles N. Davis, Ben Kaplan, Peter Martin, Eric Ratinoff, Brian Storm, and Diana Stuart. View more about the event. 

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2012 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. MediaStorm is honored to be the first web recipient of a duPont Award, for Undesired, by Walter Astrada for the Alexia Foundation. The duPont Awards, administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, are considered to be the most prestigious broadcast journalism awards and the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, which are also administered at the Journalism School. Selected by the duPont Jury for excellence in broadcast journalism, the award-winning news programs aired in the United States between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. The honorees will be presented with silver duPont batons at a ceremony held at Columbia University in January 2012. Congratulations to all of the winners, there’s some really amazing work in there. You can see the full list at the duPont site.