Another note from the CyberJournalist.Net bulletin (still digging through leftover honeymoon e-mail), mentions that The New York Times online is now doing a "week in photos" feature. The new wrinkle, since MSNBC and The Washington Post do this already, is audio commentary from the photographers and photo editors.
Excellent use of the infinite news hole. Also, mining photo archives, either internally or by outside users, could make those extra images productive. As a great historical opportunity, why not give the world some kind of access to all of those unused 9/11 photos?
Memo to self: a serious study of photo archive usage on news websites would be a good capstone project.