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Brian Storm: Multimedia Division
February 20, 2020

Brian Storm is the founder of MediaStorm, a film production and interactive design studio that publishes diverse narratives, offers advanced storytelling training, builds publishing tools and collaborates with a diverse group of clients.

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.

Christopher P. Michel

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