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"Dr.  Mu Lin is a digital journalism professional and educator in New Jersey, United States. MulinBlog is a place for Dr. Lin to share his research and thoughts about digital/multimedia journalism with students, instructors and media professionals."

"Need to brush-up on your digital journalism skills? You might want to check-out some free or low-cost, online courses being offered within the next few months."

Great article on multimedia storytelling using examples and articles and studies for support. "The Internet has raised concerns that digital media will spell doom for the narrative, replaced by constant bursts of information lacking any context and a flood of raw video and data. Younger people in particular are said to lack the attention span for reading in-depth stories and are supposedly turned off by long and complex narratives. Rather than undermining the traditional narrative, the Internet is an opportunity to experiment with multi-dimensional storytelling and new narrative approaches that provide context and depth and also are more compelling and engaging. So instead of a single linear narrative, a story can be broken up into a series of narratives organized as topical subsections that people can explore according to their own interests."

"Programs around the country are encouraging self-expression, critical-thinking skills, and collaborative learning through digital-media production. Learning to research and write scripts, hone interviewing techniques, and edit footage are just some of the skills students develop during the creative process-a process that touches on multiple academic subjects and builds both self-esteem and confidence-traits shown to lead to better grades."

"This week's RJI Futures Lab explores tools that make it easier to turn text into video, to create multimedia explanations and to create digital magazines."

"ate yesterday, Getty announced a new system for photo-sharing on its platform: embeddability. Some 35 million(!) of the agency's photos are now free for pretty much anyone to share-for, at least, noncommercial purposes. Which is big news, not only for the web publishers whose ranks are growing daily, but also for what the move says-and concedes-about the digital economy as it exists in early 2014. "

"The Storymakers app recognizes excellence in original student nonfiction that pushes the traditional boundaries of narrative. The 17 features appearing in the app represent the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists from the 2013 Digital Storymakers Award, sponsored by Atavist and the Pearson Foundation."

"Earlier this month, a colleague sent me this piece about LeBron James from Grantland. The Grantland piece is a great example of: using data to tell a story converting complex numbers into digestible infographics drawing visuals from an interview, via animated GIFs the expanding array of people engaged in producing journalism (the author is a cartographer and geography professor) The piece clearly demonstrates the vast array of storytelling opportunities digital media present to us. But it illustrates something else to me: the tremendous expectations we have of journalism students and educators to keep up with these skills and tools."

"A powerful multimedia piece by Maisie Crow about a young man with Prader-Willi Syndrome. For more from Maisie Crow, visit maisiecrow.com"

Slideshows from the Online News Site for Prince George HS in Virginia.

Not all stories make good multimedia stories. The best multimedia stories are multi-dimensional. They include action for video, a process that can be illustrated with a graphic (e.g., "how tornadoes form" or "how this new surgery works"), someone who can give some pithy quotes for video or audio, and/or strong emotions for still photos and audio. Most multimedia stories require that the reporter go into the field to report the story face-to-face with sources, rather than doing a story entirely by telephone.

How to Do a Rough Storyboard A multimedia story is some combination of video, text, still photos, audio, graphics and interactivity presented in a nonlinear format in which the information in each medium is complementary, not redundant. So your storyboard should be put together with all those elements in mind.

An article with a series of six pictures which could have been arranged in a slide show to tell the story.

A feature on the student media site of a high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's a collection of pictures and captions that attempt to provide a sense of life at this high school.