Social Media Storytelling (PDF)

Marie Elisabeth Mueller is a public broadcast journalist, university educator and trainer for digital journalism and communications who has been working in the media industry, at universities and in organisations for more than 25 years. She is a versatile author and publicist for print, radio, TV, multimedia and online media. Marie Elisabeth Mueller also conducts storytelling training, content strategy coaching and design sprints for innovative digital products for media houses, NGOs and small and medium-sized enterprises. She completed her doctorate in media studies/philosophy at the University of Constance on the topic of "Digital Storytelling in Film". She teaches interactive multimedia storytelling and platform strategy at universities in Germany and abroad, including the Stuttgart Media University and University of the Fine Arts in Berlin (Germany), S. I. Newhouse School for Public Communications in Syracuse (USA), Asian College of Journalism in Chennai (India) and Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus (Denmark). From 2004 to 2008, she was seconded to the University of Nairobi in Kenya as a DAAD lecturer. In 2020, Marie Elisabeth Mueller received the Gisela Bonn Award for her outstanding contributions to Indo-German relations. She is partner of the international core team of several global collaborative reporting projects like the Global News Relay and the Global Pop-Up Newsroom.