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Three years ago, World Press Photo expanded its awards to multimedia productions. They just announced this year's winners, and, let me tell you, it's pretty impressive. You might also be interested in The Best "World Press Photo" Winners. Here are the links to this years multimedia winners, as well as to awardees from previous years:"

Site for multimedia news stories

From 2007, but these sites are still featuring great examples of multimedia

When it comes to getting and keeping people's attention online, words alone just don't cut it anymore. That's the key finding of new PR Newswire research into the effectiveness of multimedia news releases. From Feb. 27 through March 28, researchers looked at how 200 multimedia news releases-those that included photos, videos and other elements-fared against 10,000 text-only pieces. They found that readers were 3.5 times more likely to share the

"Snow Fall tells the story of skiers and snowboarders trapped beneath an avalanche in Washington state's Cascade Mountains. And it tells that story through text, photos, videos and interactive graphics that blend seamlessly and come alive on the Web page" You can see the difference clearly in this side-by-side comparison. The left side shows how multimedia is segregated in a typical New York Times article (the Sunday Magazine profile of Jerry Seinfeld), and on the right side is the first page of the Snow Fall project.

This is from 2009: "Here, then, is my list of the five most indispensable multimedia journalism websites operating today."

this article talks about how people spend more time on article that have multimedia and bloggers and journalist use it.

A study, description, and evaluation of university journalism program's use of multimedia.

this article talks about how journalism is becoming more and more about digital journalism, they want to engage the reader by using multimedia and get them to read more articles.

"The FJP explores disruption, opportunity and innovation in journalism. "

"He quits The Daily Planet in front of the whole staff and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment - in a not-so-mild-mannered fashion. (The Daily Planet has also been moving more toward the real world, too, with the newspaper becoming part of the multimedia corporation Galaxy Broadcasting.)"

More and more news sites have been using Storify to capture reaction and highlight interesting discussions taking place on social networks. And journalism educators have also started using it - to create multimedia course content, organize handouts and teach students how to curate social media. The tool, which lets users pull together content from various social networks to tell stories, is a one-stop Web publishing shop for even the most technophobic educator.

"These university-sponsored news sites feature interactives, videos, photo slideshows and social media journalism; but need improvements in web writing and photography. This post analyzes 12 news sites which are sponsored by or affiliated with universities or journalism schools, and mostly feature student works"

At The New York Times, multimedia storytelling is becoming more a part of the journalism and less of an afterthought.

this article helps because it shows an effective method of multimedia being used in an article, the slide show adds a little extra to the story

Feeds and links to some of the most popular citizen journalism sites. Under each site link, the top five headlines are linked.

"There has never been a better time to be a storyteller. And there is no team better suited to storytelling in the social age than the Storyful team. We are a global family of technologists, journalists and social media evangelists who work with some of the biggest news and social brands in the world. Our horizons have broadened. Our ambitions have grown. And our team is getting bigger."