This paper exploits the potential of the theory of temporal affordance to address the issue of how has the digital technology impacted on contemporary journalism. It proposes a research framework covering nine temporal affordances of digital journalism (now-ness, retrievability, preparation, liveness, transience, repetivity, synchronization, multi-mediality, and interembodiment) across three action domains (production, representation and consumption). Each affordance is carefully justifed and elaborated on the basis of existing literature and observation of media practices. In doing so, this paper attempts to enlighten new theoretical resources for the study of transformation of digital journalism and provide a hand-on operational framework. It calls for future research to test the framework at empirical level.