MediaStorm: Next Generation Multimedia Storytelling [Print This Page]
- Time: 11:40 a.m. to Noon
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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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 platforms. Join Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm, for a presentation on the cutting edge of media technology and techniques that have the ability to impact journalism in the 21st century.
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Presenter: Brian Storm
President
MediaStorm
Brian Storm, MA '95, is president of MediaStorm, the award-winning multimedia production studio based in New York City. MediaStorm has won several nationally recognized awards for its multimedia and documentary work, including multiple Webby Awards, Pictures of the Year International Awards and an Emmy in just the last two years. 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. From 1995 to 2002, Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News. There he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site, and he created This Week in Pictures and Picture Stories to showcase visual journalism in new media. He 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 International and the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism contests.
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About the Technology Summit
The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media.
Technology Summit Advisers
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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