This page accompanied a talk on multiplatform science reporting given at the Knight science journalism symposium in February 2008, and existed to hand out one thing: a cheatsheet, distributed as a PDF, on how to produce a multimedia story successfully.

The sheet was organised around four requirements — planning, collaboration, innovation and interaction — and closed with practical notes on the use of video and of data. Its premise was that the hard part of multimedia reporting is not the equipment but the decisions taken before any of it is switched on.