Giving a multimedia spin to a traditionally text-only sextion, The New York Times conducted video interviews of prominent people for use as online obituaries. Multi-hour interviews are condensed to 30-minute or less online oral histories.

Multiple packages with extensive use of interactive and visual online media, including contributions from users, including primer on Iraq conflict with Richard Engel; Memorial Day remembrances and photos of fallen soldiers in Iraq; rate the candidates; a Diamond’s Journey; and a chronicle of two towns hit by Katrina.

Reporters worked closely with architects, research scientists, climate-change specialists, designers, futurists and engineers to create a house of the future that realistically projects the impact climate-change will have on our future. The Web use allows viewers to manipulate the house.

Multimedia Web package highlighting the downtown St. Cloud, Minn., area bar scene and the effect it has on the community. Uses video, audio, photography, searchable database, Flash and forums. Story also in print.

Narrated slides shows, videos, Web chats, and other multimedia events complemented print articles on the lives and shared experiences of black men. The feature looked at multiple facets of being a black male, beyond the typical news headlines.