Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, cordially invites you to the annual Hearst Foundation New Media Lecture

Brian Storm
Thursday, April 3, 2008 (6:30-9 pm)
Columbia Journalism School
116th St & Broadway (#1 train to 116th St)

Join us to hear Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm.org and former director of multimedia for MSNBC.com – one of most exciting and influential minds in journalism today (bio below). See the work of his company at http://mediastorm.org

6:30-7:00 pm -  reception – drinks and light food
7-9 pm – lecture + Q&A (dessert will be available after the Q&A)

No charge; no RSVP required; all are welcome.

Read/hear previous Hearst New Media Lectures:
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/hearst/

2007: Adrian Holovaty – The Line Between Humans and Computers
2006: Dan Gillmor – Trends in New Media
2005: Neal Scarbrough – Lessons from the Cutting Edge
2004: Jack Shafer – Spinning Into Control: The Good News About the Second

Generation of Web Journalism
2003: Michael Moran – War Coverage in the Internet Age
2000: Rich Jaroslovsky – The Net and the Pendulum: Lessons Learned with the

Benefit of 20-20 Hindsight
1999: Dan Okrent – The Death of Print

 

BIO OF BRIAN STORM

Brian Storm is president of MediaStorm (http://mediastorm.org), a multimedia production studio based in New York City. MediaStorm’s principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video for distribution across multiple media. In 2007, MediaStorm won an Emmy for Broadband Documentaries and a Webby Award for the Magazine category.
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. From 1995 to 2002 he was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com.
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.

OUR THANKS TO THE HEARST FOUNDATION FOR ITS SUPPORT OF NEW MEDIA EDUCATION AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL


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