Course sections

Mostly, this index mirrors the chapters in the book version of MMJ

However, because the world of multimedia journalism is a fast-moving one, there are also new chapters listed here - chapters that don't exist in the current print edition of MMJ

Getting Started

• Chapter 1: Essentials of writing a news story
• Chapter 2: Creating a publishing platform
• Chapter 3: Still pictures
• Chapter 4: Audio and podcasting
• Chapter 5: Video
• Web-exclusive chapter: Social Media
• Web-exclusive chapter: Data journalism
• Web exclusive chapter: HTML and CSS

Building Proficiency

• Chapter 6: Writing news stories
• Web-exclusive chapter: Smartphones as a news gathering, reporting and publishing tool
• Chapter 7: Publishing platforms for live reporting
• Web-exclusive chapter: Live blogging and real-time reporting
• Chapter 8: User-granted content and email bulletins
• Chapter 9: Publishing platforms for user-generated content and email bulletins
• Chapter 10: Still pictures and audio
• Chapter 11: Video
• Web-exclusive chapter: Building proficiency with social media

Professional Standards

• Chapter 12: Professional standards
• Chapter 13: Professional standards: sub-editing, search engine optimisation and proof-reading
• Chapter 14: Professional standards: publishing platforms for advanced multimedia storytelling
• Chapter 15: Professional standards: still pictures
• Chapter 16: Editing and presenting audio and video news bulletin and longer magazine-style programming
• Chapter 17: The future: Web 3.0
• Chapter 18: Getting a job as a multimedia journalist
• Web-exclusive chapter: Eight journalistic specialisms
• Web-exclusive chapter: Entrepreneurial journalism: how to build your own job
• Web-exclusive chapter: How to sell yourself online