A new PDF "Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency" offers guidance for journalists who are ready to learn how to transform themselves into multimedia journalists, by demystifying new options for storytelling that have been made possible by digital tools.

This 42-page document is the result of 15 blog posts by journalism professor Mindy McAdams, who teaches at the College of Journalism and Communications, at the University of Florida in the U.S. It is fully linked and usable online in most Web browsers, or in Adobe Reader, or in Preview on the Mac OS.

To access the guide, click here. To learn more about McAdams, visit her Web site at http://mindymcadams.com/.