CFR.org and MediaStorm win Emmy for Crisis Guide: Darfur

Crisis Guide: Darfur, produced for Council on Foreign Relations, is the recipient of the 2008 Emmy Award in the New Approaches To News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage Category. Other nominees in the category included: current.com: Mogadishu Madness msnbc.com: The Fight for Iraq Washingtonpost.com: A Nation Divided Washingtonpost.com: After the Destruction Washingtonpost.com: Living with PTSD Congratulations also to the San Jose Mercury News, who won in the Documentaries category for "Uprooted", and to the Detroit Free Press, who won in the Arts, Lifestyle and Culture Category for "40 Years of Respect" and the Regional News Coverage Category for "Pit bulls: Companions or killers?" Pictured from left to right are: Brian Storm, Jeremy Sherlick, Pamela Chen, Mike Moran, Stephanie Hanson and Tim Klimowicz.  Image by bryan-brown.com.

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MediaStorm produces ‘Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ for Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations and MediaStorm have collaborated to produce a new online multimedia feature, Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Using a comprehensive array of audio, video, imagery, and text, the guide offers an in-depth look at the history of the conflict and its geopolitical repercussions. Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Authority was produced in consultation with experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, Arab and Israeli sources, as well as an array of independent scholars, former officials, diplomats, and experts on the region’s political and economic history. Crisis Guides, CFR.org’s interactive, award-winning franchise, seek to bring context and historical perspective to the world’s most complex issues. Produced with MediaStorm.org, the series also includes Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula, which looks at the standoff between the two Koreas, and Crisis Guide: Darfur, which looks at the tragedy in Sudan’s Darfur region. The next guide will tackle the issue of climate change.

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