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.

From November 8-12, 2011, two teams of multimedia journalists collaborated with the MediaStorm team at our MediaStorm Multimedia Workshop. Participants spent a week reporting, editing, and producing Broken Lines and Voice. Broken Lines by Martine Fougeron, Richard Kendall, Frank de Ruiter, and Simon Schorno Joe Soll never met his birth parents. Raised by upper-middle class New Yorkers, he spent half of his life tormented by the death of his mother. Watch it now. Voice by Christian Als, Edith Champagne, and Janine Boreland Ian Willey had his first experience rhyming in second grade. Now at 28, Willey is pursuing his dream of becoming a hip hop artist. The motivation behind his rap comes from an unexpected place — 90 fifth grade students at a school in Harlem. Watch it now. We will be holding three MediaStorm Multimedia Workshops in 2012: March 24-30, 2012 – Application Deadline: January 23, 2012 July 28-August 3, 2012  – Application Deadline: June…

MediaStorm is excited to announce that Rob Finch will be joining us as our Professional in Residence this spring. Finch is a two time Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year contest – first in 2000 and again in 2003. He was runner-up in 2001. He was selected to exhibit his work in Perpignan, France at the Visa Pour L’Image festival and was a member of the World Press Masterclass in 2002. Photo District News named him one of 30 emerging photographers to watch. In 2007, Finch was part of a team of journalists at The Oregonian awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for his role as a multimedia producer. In 2008, Finch won the 2008 Online Journalism Award for Best Video presentation. In 2009, Finch left daily photography to become the Visuals Editor at The Oregonian. Finch has been a faculty member of the NPPA’s Flying Short Course,…