Less than a year after creating a dedicated unit to create platform-specific content for Instagram and Vine, FUSION has been named one of the “Best Brands on Instagram” by The Shorty Awards. Finalists were announced last week.
The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media, recognizing the people and organizations producing content on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, Vine, and the rest of the social web. Among the other brands recognized in the Instagram category were Airbnb, Applebee’s, Mercedes Benz, Google Glass, GoPro, Jordan Brand, Mashable, SyFy’s Ascension, Expedia, and XBox.
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Fusion was recognized with two awards in the last week – a Telly Award for the WISDOM project and a PromaxBDA award for the network’s graphics. Fusion CEO sent the following email to staff congratulating them –
Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on taking home the first batch of awards for Fusion.
I am thrilled to say that the WISDOM project has been honored with a Telly Award in the “Internet/Online Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Web Series” category. Congratulations to Jordi Oliveres who has done an exceptional job leading this project. He has gained access to a wide array of luminaries to have them share some of their most valuable life lessons and insights with our audience. It is a great example of content that can easily live across all our platforms from Fusion.netto Instagram to television. You can watch all of the Wisdom videos here.
In addition, our graphics team has been recognized by their peers in the industry for creating a graphics package for Fusion that is innovative in its design. That recognition comes in the form of a PromaxBDA bronze award for Art Direction and Design in the news program graphics category. Michael Berkman and his team were singled out for the branding of “AMERICA with Jorge Ramos,” which utilized a number of unconventional approaches that helped us avoid the trappings of traditional tv news. For example, “AMERICA” is the first news program to align its graphics on a vertical axis with multiple streams of information scrolling along the left and right – more closely mirroring the experience we all have of scrolling and swiping on our smartphones. It is small details like this that help to give us a distinct, bold look on air.
The Committee to Protect Journalists today announced that Fusion’s Jorge Ramos will be honored at the 2014 International Press Freedom Awards. He will be recognized with the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom. Ramos currently anchors “AMERICA with Jorge Ramos” in English on Fusion as well as Univision’s evening newscast “Noticiero Univision” and Sunday public affairs program “Al Punto” in Spanish.
The other 2014 awardees include Burmese journalist Aung Zaw, founder and editor-in-chief of The Irrawaddy, which was branded an “enemy of the state” by the former military regime and still comes under pressure from the current Burmese government; Siamak Ghaderi, Iranian freelance journalist and former editor and reporter for the Islamic Republic’s official news agency IRNA, who was released in July after spending four years in prison; Mikhail Zygar, editor-in-chief for the Russian independent TV channel Dozhd, which provides a rare alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal stations; and Ferial Haffajee, editor-in-chief of City Press in South Africa, who has faced fierce criticism and threats of violence against herself and her staff for critical stories published under her leadership.
All of the winners will be honored at CPJ’s annual award and benefit dinner in New York City on November 25, 2014. Christiane Amanpour, anchor and chief international correspondent for CNN and a CPJ board member, will host the event. Alberto Ibargüen, president of the Knight Foundation, is the dinner chairman.
Jorge Ramos is one of the most highly respected journalists in the United States and Latin American. He has covered five wars and has reported many of the most important news stories of the last two decades, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. He has also covered numerous international summits, guerrilla movements in Chiapas and Central America, elections throughout Central and South America, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and many other highly relevant events. Ramos has interviewed some of the world’s most influential political leaders and writers of the 21st century.
The nominees for the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced today and Fusion was nominated in two categories.
Alicia Menendez and her team have been nominated in the Outstanding TV Journalism Segment category for “A Model With a Mission,” which profiled fashion model and trans advocate Geena Rocero. Watch the report below.
Cristina Costantini, Jorge Rivas, and Kristofer Ríos were also nominated in the Outstanding Digital Journalism category for “Why Did the U.S. Lock Up These Women With Men?” The investigation took an in-depth look at life for transgender women in U.S. immigration detention facilities.
The National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) has named Fusion CEO Isaac Lee to their 2014 class of Next Generation Leaders Awards. Presented in partnership with Multichannel News, the Next Generation Leaders Awards honor emerging executives under the age of 45 for their professional acumen and achievements in fostering multi-ethnic diversity and inclusion within the communications industry.
Isaac Lee, who also serves as President of Univision News, will be recognized in the Cable Programmer category. In 2013 Isaac oversaw the development and launch of Fusion – a joint venture between the Disney/ABC Television Group and Univision. Fusion engages and champions a young, diverse, and inclusive America with a unique mix of original reporting, lifestyle, and comedic content that is both smart and irreverent.
“NAMIC is committed to developing as well as recognizing the pipeline of diverse professionals within the communications industry through our flagship programs, initiatives and events,” Alicin Williamson, interim president of NAMIC said in a statement. “We are thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of this distinguished group of leaders that are making innovative, creative and strategic business contributions while exemplifying NAMIC’s mission to educate, advocate and empower to advance diversity and inclusion within their companies.”
Isaac Lee will be recognized at the NAMIC Annual Awards Breakfast on May 1 in conjunction with the National Cable Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show. Full release from NAMIC here.
This week Cablefax celebrated its Program Awards at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, which recognize the “fearless winners” who represent those who create amazing content and the experts who deliver it to the viewers.
Fusion’s Jorge Ramos was recognized in the Best Host for News/Public Affairs category for his role anchoring “AMERICA with Jorge Ramos” on Fusion. “Time and again, Ramos proves that he’s one of the most exciting TV journalists working today—not because of his charm and good looks (both of which he has in spades), but because he asks the kind of questions that most reporters simply won’t… opinionated or not, Ramos always fights for the truth and makes no secrets about his point of view as he tackles some of the toughest issues affecting both Hispanic and non-Hispanic audiences,” Cablefax said.
Today the Alliance for Women In Media Foundation announced the recipients of the 40th Annual Gracies Awards. Fusion’s “Alicia Menendez Tonight” was recognized with a Gracies Award in the “Outstanding Talk Show” in the Entertainment/Information category.
This award recognizes Alicia Menendez and her team for the show’s accomplishments during its first year on the air. More on the show here.
Kristen Welch, Alliance for Women in Media Foundation Chair, said in making the announcement, “Though we receive hundreds of submissions from all over the country every year, it never ceases to amaze us of all the great work that has been done to further highlight women in media. We are thrilled to honor such smart, thoughtful and inspirational individuals, organizations and programming this year.”
The Gracies will be presented 40th Annual Gracies Awards Gala, to be held on May 19, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The evening will honor such luminaries as Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olivia Munn, and Mae Whitman, among many others. Additionally, AWMF will bestow Cicely Tyson with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking work, giving a voice to women in film and television for more than 60 years.
Fusion is ready to make its debut in our nation’s capital. We are teaming up with our parents ABC News and Univision to kick off White House Correspondents’ weekend with a party that will feature a live performance by two time Latin Grammy winner Fonseca.
Basically, Fusion is DARING WASHINGTON NOT TO DANCE.
Fusionistas including Alicia Menendez, Mariana Atencio, Yannis Pappas, Pedro Andrade, Nando Vila, Simon Carr and others will be getting down with the powerhouse political team of ABC News and special guests that include members of the cast of ABC’s Modern Family.
For an inside look at the party on Friday night follow the hashtag #ThisIsFusion.
Just days after Mexican and U.S. officials detained elusive drug lord “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto sits down for an interview with Fusion’s Leon Krauze.
Long Island University (LIU) has recognized FUSION, along with the partner organizations working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with a George Polk Award for its reporting on the Panama Papers. The investigation is being recognized in the financial journalism category.
The Panama Papers marks one of the largest investigations in journalism history with more than 100 media partners and 400 journalists collaborating on the reporting. The papers are a trove of leaked documents from inside Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that creates offshore companies to hide financial activities of the rich and powerful. A leak to Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung of 11.5 million documents involving 210,000 companies was shared with CPI’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which coordinated investigative work with media partners such as McClatchy, FUSION, The Guardian, Le Monde and others.
As one of the few English-language partners in the United States,
FUSION produced a series of digital reports as well as a one hour documentary “The Naked Truth: Dirty Little Secrets.” That reporting is available here.
The Polk Awards honor and celebrate the impact of courageous and authentic journalism on our national and global discourse.
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