MediaStorm’s stories and interactive applications have received numerous honors, including 17 Emmy Award nominations (4 time winner), 30 Webby nominations (6 time winner), three Online Journalism Awards, three World Press Photo Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as more than 50 awards from Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism.

Prior to launching MediaStorm in 2005, Storm spent two years as Vice President of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis, a digital media agency founded and owned by Bill Gates. Storm led Corbis' global strategy for its news, sports, entertainment and historical collections and oversaw the division responsible for representing a group of industry-leading photographers with a focus on creating in-depth multimedia products.

From 1995 to 2002, Storm was the first Director of Multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video areas of one of the world’s leading 24-hour news sites. In October of 1998, his team created MSNBC's The Week in Pictures feature to showcase the power of visual journalism.

Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he ran the New Media Lab and taught Electronic Photojournalism. In 1994, he launched the first version of MediaStorm as an interactive CD-ROM production company.

Storm serves on the Advisory Board of Reporters Without Borders, the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop, and Pictures of the Year. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of storytelling.

In addition to MediaStorm’s training efforts, Storm leads the product vision for the MediaStorm Platform with the goal of empowering the next generation of storytellers.

Born in Minnesota, he has endured the family curse of being a lifelong Vikings fan. He lives in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains with his wife Elodie and their children Eva and Jasper. He can be reached at brian@mediastorm.com.

Brian's Project Showcase

Tim Obert has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12. But regulations aimed at saving whales and salmon in California leave him struggling to find balance between his dream, his family’s needs and the industry he loves.

Melissa, a single mother from California, suddenly lost her vision. Her disability makes Melissa dual eligible, meaning she qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid.

The American family farm gives way to a subdivision - a critical cultural shift across the U.S. Common Ground is a 27-year document of this transition, through the Cagwins and the Grabenhofers, two families who love the same plot of land.

Zora J Muff sees himself as an artist who happens to be Black living in a society that believes in race. His work shines a light on white supremacy and has been given ICP’s 2023 Infinity Awards: Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism.

In Rwanda, in 1994, Hutu militia committed a bloody genocide, murdering one million Tutsis. Many of the Tutsi women were spared, only to be held captive and repeatedly raped. Many became pregnant. Intended Consequences tells their stories.

Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's dream to leave the poverty of life in Africa for the promised land of Europe. We walk in his shoes, as photojournalist Olivier Jobard accompanies Kingsley on his uncertain and perilous journey.

Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.

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