| Sumario: | Conventional wisdom dictates that the future of newspaper journalism is online. But what does this new form of journalism look like? Using the Web site of the New York Times as an exploratory case study, the author conducted a content analysis on 45 multimedia news packages published between 2000 and 2007, coding for narrative qualities, news values, and media format in an effort to begin to understand the emerging characteristics of multimedia Web journalism. The packages in this exploratory study demonstrated little of the hypertextual structures defined by theorists of the Web, perhaps reflecting the transitional nature of the period. First-person narrative, by both journalists and nonjournalists, was the most common point of view. More than one fourth of the multimedia packages consisted of first-person accounts by nonjournalists accompanied by traditional stories written by reporters published in the print edition of the New York Times, presenting an interesting model for professional-citizen collaborations across media.
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