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Dan Gillmor and Kristy RoschkeApril 13, 2020

Linking to older stories is usually noble, but for coronavirus, it can be a recipe for a misinformed audience

“Through today’s lens, many U.S. coronavirus news stories from January and February seem breezy and untroubled…Many of these stories continue to circulate on social media.”

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 9, 2018

The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s

“Ultimately, this digitalization will equip Times journalists with useful tools to make it easier to tell even more visual stories.”

Shan WangAugust 22, 2018

We’re getting closer to the day when news apps and interactives can be easily preserved in perpetuity

Well, maybe not easily, but an NYU team is building a tool to save the entirety of a news app (including underlying libraries and frameworks), as well as a digital repository to hold them for future audiences.

Christine SchmidtFebruary 8, 2018

DNAinfo Chicago will be reborn as Block Club Chicago, relying on blockchain and subscriptions instead of billionaires

“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 8, 2018

The Offshore Journalism Project would let newsrooms send a “distress signal” when their content is at risk of being lost forever

“When digital news outlets disappear, the holes in coverage show, and they can be huge.”

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 21, 2017

Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down

“So many people who work professionally on the Internet really don’t know, until too late, that their work is this fragile.”

The Atlantic brings readers into its archives with timelines based on their birthdays

How The New York Times redesigned its archives, more than a decade after publication

A museum crowdsources how American newspapers covered (or didn’t cover) the Holocaust

Photo by Sam Falk. Used with permission from The New York Times.

Shan WangFebruary 3, 2016

The New York Times is unearthing unpublished photos from its archives for Black History Month

The Times is grappling with the past, present, and future of its race coverage, encouraging readers to share their own materials and memories and along the way shedding a little light on the journalistic process.

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