MediaStorm publishes The Marlboro Marine and Never Coming Home

The Marlboro Marine by Luis SincoLos Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco's photograph of Marine Lance Corporal James Blake Miller became an icon of the Iraq War. The Marlboro Marine is the story of how Miller tries to heal the scars of war and how two lives became connected by a photograph. Never Coming Home by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac BarrAs soldiers and marines perish in Iraq, headlines and funerals mark their passage. Never Coming Home details a deeply personal and public bereavement, and shows a portrait of grief and sacrifice of families with a hole in their lives, nothing but memory where once there was a living son and brother. Originally published on MediaStorm in 2005, Never Coming Home has been expanded to include never-seen-before stories from several other American families who lost loved ones in Iraq. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of MediaStorm's online publication. We are honored to have…

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College Photographer of the Year

The results for the 62nd College Photographer of the Year Competition were recently announced, and winning images and stories are now available on the CPOY site. Travis Dove (Ohio University) was named 2007 College Photographer of the Year. Along with the still image categories, awards were also given for Multimedia Project (winner: Jeff Giraldo, Western Kentucky University) , Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay (winner: Crystal Street, UNC Chapel Hill) and Individual Video or Mixed Media Photo Story or Essay (winner: Tim Gruber, Ohio University). Congratulations to all!

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MediaStorm Collaborates with the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco photographed James Blake Miller during the assault on Fallujua, Iraq in November 2004. The image of Miller, with a distant look and a cigarette dangling from his lips, ran in newspapers and on TV broadcasts around the country and became an emblem of the Iraq War. The image has changed both of their lives and connected photographer and subject in ways neither imagined. MediaStorm collaborated with the Los Angeles Times to produce a three-part multimedia series entitled The Marlboro Marine to the tell the story behind the photograph and this soldier's struggle as he tries to rebuild his life after a tour of duty and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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WAR DANCE now showing

For the last two decades, the people of northern Uganda have been dealing with unthinkable conflict and hardship. War Dance is the story of one group of children, from the Patongo refugee camp, who overcome intense personal experiences to join together and qualify to compete, along with 20,000 other schools, in the National Music Competition, in Kampala. War Dance is now showing in a few theatres across the country, including (in NYC) Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and also the Angelika Film Center (where free tickets are being given out for the 7:40 and 10:00pm shows this evening, courtesy of HSBC).

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Voodoo by Les Stone on the Digital Journalist

Photojournalist Les Stone has covered conflict and major stories for over 20 years. He has spent time in Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Cambodia, and many other places, and has returned time and time again to Haiti, where he has covered everything from violent political uprisings to his work on the Voodoo culture, which is featured in this month's Digital Journalist. PF Bentley takes viewers deeper into the story, in a documentary video talking with Les about his work in Haiti, and his life at his place in the Catskills.

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