Join us for a book party!  The Principles of Multimedia Journalism: Packaging Digital News is a book that systemizes in-depth online news forms into a classification for journalists to better understand the nature of online storytelling.

In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism, Richard Koci Hernandez and Jeremy Rue categorize the characteristics of the new, often experimental storyforms that appear on today's digital news platforms. By identifying a classification of digital news packages and introducing a new vocabulary for how content is packaged and presented, the authors give students and professionals alike a way to talk about and understand the importance of story design in an era of convergence storytelling.


About the Authors

Jeremy Rue (MJ '07) is a lecturer of new media at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He was formerly a multimedia instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley, where he taught new media storytelling workshops. He is a former print reporter, photojournalist, and Web developer. He is the recipient of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship award for his photo documentary work on migrant farmworkers.

Richard Koci Hernandez is an assistant professor of new media at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a National Emmy Award–winning multimedia producer. His work for the Mercury News earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. In 2003, he was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award.