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| About MediaStorm | | | |
Originally founded in 1994 at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, MediaStorm relaunched in March of 2005 with a focus on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms.
In November 2005, MediaStorm premiered its award-winning multimedia publication http://mediastorm.org. Utilizing animation, audio, video and the power of still photography, we publish diverse narratives that speak to the heart of the human condition.
MediaStorm is widely recognized for the quality editorial work we've produced for our many clients. We have created award-winning multimedia projects, interactive applications, and web sites for media companies, foundations and advocacy groups. Our clientele includes Starbucks, Council on Foreign Relations, and National Geographic Magazine. MediaStorm projects have also appeared on numerous websites including MSNBC, Slate, NPR and Reuters and have been broadcast on PBS.
MediaStorm has been honored with numerous accolades including two Emmys (2007 and 2008) and four Webby Awards.
The MediaStorm team possesses a diverse range of talent and experience; we come from the photography and television industries, as well as design, journalism, and information technology backgrounds. Our staff is actively sought by prestigious institutions and corporations to lecture and teach about multimedia storytelling as well as strategies for creating successful business models in the digital age.
Our constant interaction with photographers, editors, educators and students throughout the world helps sustain an industry-wide discussion on the promises of multimedia. We offer a variety of online documentation to help others advance their storytelling approaches. In 2008, MediaStorm created the Advanced Multimedia Workshops.
To stay connected with MediaStorm, sign up for our newsletter, follow our blog, or download our podcasts. MediaStorm also utilizes Facebook and Twitter to communicate with those interested in multimedia. MediaStorm graphics are available for linking to our projects. Visit our online store to purchase MediaStorm merchandise.
For more information, contact us.
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The MediaStorm Team
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| Brian Storm | | President |
Brian Storm is president of MediaStorm, a
multimedia production studio based in New York City.
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 the news, sports, entertainment and historical collections. He directed the development of Corbis' production tools and the
representation of world-class photographers for assignment work with a focus on creating in-depth multimedia products.
From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of
Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site. Storm created The Week in Pictures and Picture Stories to showcase visual journalism in new media.
Storm serves on the Advisory Board for The Council on Foreign Relations, The Eddie Adams
Workshop, The Alexia Foundation, and Brooks Institute's Journalism School. He has judged both the
University of Missouri's Pictures of the Year and the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism contests.
Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and
produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo
Workshop.
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 | | | Eric Maierson |
| Multimedia Producer | | | Eric Maierson has 10 years of experience writing and producing for television. He helped develop and produce the Peabody Award-winning show A Walk in Your Shoes and served as head writer for VH1's hit series Where Are They Now? Additionally, his short films have played at film festivals across the country and his writing has appeared in Playboy and McSweeney's, among others. At MediaStorm, Maierson won an Emmy award for producing Kingsley's Crossing. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. | | |
 | | | Tim Klimowicz |
| Interactive Designer | | | Tim Klimowicz is a designer whose work spans a wide gamut, from design and photography to his ongoing interactive mapping project, Iraq War Coalition Fatalities, which has received considerable media recognition from multiple media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal Online, Spiegel International, MSNBC and Salon.com, and been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Born and raised in New York City, Klimowicz studied Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts and an Associate of Applied Science in Network Administration from LaGuardia Community College.
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 | | | Jessica Stuart |
| Project Manager | | | Jessica Stuart spent five years before coming to MediaStorm as the Executive Producer of the Eddie Adams Workshop, where she was responsible for daily operations and also managed Adams' extensive photography archive. Prior to the Workshop, she spent time living in Singapore editing and licensing images for Asia Images, a boutique picture agency. Stuart graduated from Indiana University with a degree in journalism.
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 | | | Bob Sacha |
| Multimedia Producer | | | Bob Sacha has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning photographer, traveling the world for dozens of publications, including National Geographic, Life, Time and Fortune. He has received many international awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Pictures of the Year and NPPA awards. Sacha is a renowned teacher at photographic workshops from Maine to Tuscany who also teaches at the International Center of Photography in NYC. He is a master's degree candidate in new media and film, and was the John H. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow at Ohio University in 2006-2007. | | |
 | | | Jacky Myint |
| Interactive Designer | | | Jacky Myint is a web and interactive designer who has worked for Condé Nast Portfolio.com and The Associated Press, producing interactive infographics. Her interactives at Portfolio.com were part of a portfolio that won silver from MALOFIEJ, an international competition for print and online information graphics sponsored by the Society for News Design. Her first job was for Idealist.org/Action Without Borders where she spent two and a half years designing for both print and web and organizing Idealist's first nonprofit design competition. Jacky graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Biology and B.A. in Visual Arts and received her M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design in New York City. | | |
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MediaStorm Contributors | |  | | | Robert Browman | | Multimedia Producer | |
| Since January 2005, Robert Browman has been a freelance multimedia journalist and producer based in
Miami, FL. Browman spent the two years prior at the picture agency Corbis in New York City, during which time he held a few different roles including Senior Editor for News, News
Assignment Representative and Multimedia Producer. Before moving to New York, Browman spent three-and-a-half years working at MSNBC.com as a Multimedia Producer, first working the daily news desk, and then working
with the special projects team on multimedia Picture Stories and The Week in Pictures. Browman began his multimedia career at the Albuquerque Journal, where he worked for nearly three years as an Online Producer after
moving over from the photography department. He received a degree in Journalism in 1996 from the University of Florida. |
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 | | | Chad Stevens |
| Multimedia Producer | | | Chad A. Stevens is an award-winning photographer and educator. While a faculty member at Western Kentucky University (WKU), he created the Appalachian Cultural Project documentary photography workshop. Stevens lived and worked in East Africa, photographing and producing multimedia projects for several international aid organizations, including Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Stevens was named College Photographer of the Year in 1997 and interned at National Geographic Magazine. He is a graduate of WKU, a master's degree candidate at Ohio University, and teaches multimedia at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
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The MediaStorm
Advisory Board | |  | | | Merrill Brown
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| | Merrill Brown is the founder and principal of MMB Media LLC, which
provides clients with management and strategy consulting, corporate, editorial and program development, business analysis and marketing
services. Before establishing the firm, Brown served as Senior Vice President, RealOne
Services and as the first Editor in Chief of MSNBC.com. Brown serves on the board of The
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, the International Women's Media Foundation, and The Media Center, a division of the
American Press Institute. He is a member of the Journalism Advisory Committee, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. |
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| David Elliot Cohen |
| | David Elliot Cohen has written, co-authored or edited more than
70 large-format illustrated books, including 53 in Cohen and Rick Smolan's recent
America 24/7 series. Collectively, Cohen's books have sold more than 5 million copies. The Day in the Life... series, originally
created by Cohen and Smolan, is still the world's best-known, most well respected photography book series. The winner of numerous
awards, Cohen is particularly proud of three books he produced and published on a pro-bono basis: 15 Seconds: The California Earthquake
of 1989, which raised more than $600,000 for victims of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; Requiem for the Heartland, which raised nearly
$300,000 for 1996 Oklahoma City bombing victims; and A Day in the Life of Africa (2002),
which benefits AIDS Education programs in Africa. | | |  | | | Eliane Laffont |
| | Eliane Laffont serves
Hachette Filipacchi Medias as editorial director, supervising the photographic production of the group in the US, as well as
developing the photography division around 3 sectors: photojournalism, photo illustration and photo reportage. One of the industry's
most venerated veterans, Laffont opened the US office of Gamma Press Images in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Laffont in
1968. In 1973, they co-funded the breakaway Sygma Photo News Agency where Eliane served as general manager of the North American
operation. After a two-year hiatus as Director of photography of LOOK magazine, she returned to her position as president of Sygma US in
1980 to 1999. Under her leadership, Sygma blossomed into the world's largest photo news agency. | | |
 | | | Elodie Mailliet |
| | Elodie Mailliet is Director of
Photography for Contour by Getty Images where she
oversees the carefully edited collection of high-end celebrity portraiture. Prior to joining Getty Images, Mailliet was Director of
Photography for portraiture and entertainment at Corbis Outline. In 2005, she was named one of the top 100 people in photography by American Photo. Mailliet is author of
the book one2one, published by
TeNeues. In addition to her previous roles at Corbis and Icon International, she has worked as a freelance writer for numerous French and
American publications such as Le Nouvel Observateur, VSD and French Photo. In 1999, she published Kant entre Desespoir et Esperance, the
result of her Master's thesis in philosophy from Paris X Nanterre. A native of Paris, France, she came to the United States in 1999 to
pursue a Master's in Journalism at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Mailliet currently resides in New York
City. | | |
 | | | Jean-Jaques Naudet |
| | Jean-Jaques Naudet was born in Paris in 1945. He has been married to the same woman for 38 years and has two children and two grandchildren. He started his career at French Vogue in 1968. In 1971, he moved to French Photo, for which he was editor in chief from 1976 to 1988. He has been editor at large of American Photo and photo correspondent to Hachette Filipacchi since 1989. He has never published anyone without meeting her or him first.
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 | | | Rick Smolan |
| | Rick Smolan founded Against All Odds Productions in 1991 to design and execute large-scale photographic projects that combine print,
interactive CD-ROM, and Web-based technology to tell compelling stories. A former TIME, Life, and National Geographic photographer,
Smolan previously had created the best-selling Day in the Life photography series with his collaborator David Cohen. In 1996, Against
All Odds orchestrated 24 Hours in Cyberspace, the largest online event ever to take place in a single day, which included the work of
hundreds of photographers, programmers, students, and designers. Smolan's latest project was America 24/7 a historic documentation of life in America on May 16, 2003. | | |
 | | | Curtis Wong | | | Curtis Wong is
group manager of Next Media Research within Microsoft, responsible
for envisioning where Microsoft's future interactive media technologies can enhance the consumer media experience. He also spends a
portion of him time doing pro bono work with non-profit organizations, and his recent external collaboration with WGBH Interactive to
produce the broadband enhanced documentary Commanding Heights: The
Battle for the World Economy, won a 2002 Academy Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Wong's eclectic
background includes an MBA and four years as a strategy consulting manager with KPMG, where he created their first strategic management
practice utilizing personal computers in 1981. Wong has served on the advisory boards of PBS, the Ovation Channel, the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, and the Canadian Film Centre. He currently serves on the board of trustees for the Rhode Island School of Design
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