New MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Workshop Projects Launched, Additional Workshop Dates Added

From March 6-12, 2010, we held our sixth MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop. Three teams of talented professionals, along with MediaStorm Producer Eric Maierson and guest producers Scott Anger and Rick Gershon, conceived, reported, and produced the following projects: Take Care by Gillian Laub, Henrik Björnsson, Elena Ghanotakis, and Laura Varma Virginia Gandee's brilliant red hair and dozen tattoos belie the reality of this 22-year-old's life. Inside her family's Staten Island trailer her caregiving goes far beyond the love she has for her daughter. Close to Home by Mary Beth Meehan, Michele Asselin and Maria Finitzo Roxanne Pickering is a Brooklyn resident bound by family and economics to live near the Gowanus Canal, a polluted waterway recently declared an EPA superfund site. Johnnie Footman: New York City's 90-year-old Cabbie by Jan Johannessen and Charlotte Oestervang Johnnie Footman, 90, may be the oldest cabbie in New York City. His age limits his time…

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charity: water launches UNSHAKEN campaign to fund long-term water solutions in Haiti

Today, on World Water Day, charity: water launched UNSHAKEN, a campaign to fund long-term water solutions for areas of greatest need in rural Haiti. After the earthquake on January 12, over one million people were displaced from Port-au-Prince to the rural areas, where they have minimal or no access to clean, safe water. One-third of the nation lacked access to safe water before the quake; now, the situation is devastating. As the rural communities continue to swell, so does the risk of deadly waterborne diseases. In the coming months, charity: water plans to raise $1.3 million to serve more than 40,000 people in 11 of these areas with clean, safe drinking water. 100% of the funds raised will directly fund water projects on the ground. You can help: watch the video, visit the UNSHAKEN site, learn more about the issues they're facing, and help spread the word.

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Internship Opening: Year-long internship at Los Angeles Times

Great opportunity for aspiring photojournalists seeking large publication experience: the Los Angeles Times is looking for an intern. It sounds like start/end dates are flexible, so get those applications in! Job Posting: The Los Angeles Times is seeking applicants for a year long paid internship. We will consider recent college graduates who have appropriate photojournalism experience. The photographer can expect to work on a variety of both daily and longer term assignments throughout California. Additionally, the photographer can expect to work with editors to include audio and video components with their stories. Please send a letter, a resume and a link to an online presentation of your work to photointern@latimes.com. Update 4/20/2010: This position has been filled. Thanks to all who applied!

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LUCEO Announces Creation of Student Project Award

If you aren't familiar with the work of Luceo, they're worth checking out. There are some terrific photographers in the collective, working to support each other, and they've just announced that they will be funding a Student Project Award, to help support a developing photographer. More from Luceo: Luceo is united in a common belief that, through these times of change, the still image continues to be relevant. We believe that history extends beyond the news-cycle, and that ordinary people and personal struggle are avenues through which we can explore the bigger issues facing our world. It is with this purpose that we have created the Luceo Student Project Award. Luceo Student Project Award: Luceo also believes that developing photographers need support. To advance this cause, they have created the Luceo Student Project Award. This award will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing…

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Brian Storm to give keynote address at ASPP “Reinvention Weekend”

The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) invite you to Reinvent, Reimagine and Reinvigorate your career or your approach to the photography business at their “Reinvention Weekend” April 15th – 18th in Boston. Keynote speaker, Brian Storm of MediaStorm, will join an incredible line up of speakers: Rick Smolan/Against All Odds, Ilise Benun of marketing-mentor.com, Allen Murabayashi of PhotoShelter, Caitlin Jewell of Silverscape, Nancy Andrews/Detroit Free Press, Lou Jones, Ian Ginsberg of VII Agency, Dane Howard of vuvox.com and others. Click on the links at www.aspp.com to read about our speakers and sessions. The registration fees for this 3-day event is only $495 for ASPP and PACA members, and $590 for sister organizations. You can now register at the ASPP site. A one-day Trade Show will be the kick-off event on Thursday 15th, and display tables are still available for $150. During Trade Show…

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