Media literacy education provides a toolbox for helping direct students' attention to the way we shape information for audience and purpose. The National Association for Media Literacy Education defines the core skills of media literacy as the ability to access, analyze, and evaluate information, as well as the ability to create and act on information ("Media Literacy Defined"). If we believe that narrative is essential to the way people make meaning out of everyday experience, then media literacy can serve as a powerful framework for exploring how to read and write factual stories. In this article, the authors reflect on a project developed with high school students in an effort to invigorate a research unit and encourage them to explore the methods of journalism to compose multimedia stories. This reflection was guided by collaborative exploration of the students' stories.