Flash

I think Flash is a very effective tool for multimedia journalism. Stories that can be interactive with rollover links and text boxes, as well as things like soundslides, allow for creativity on the journalists' end as well as the feeling of freedom of click on the user's end. It's a winning combination for both I think. Creating pages with flash seems to be something that just needs to be done as trial and error, see what works, what looks the best. But with some time invested it will be a really good thing to know how to use in the newsroom.