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Articles tagged archiving (8)

Hanaa' TameezJuly 31, 2024

To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands

From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

Ready to read the report?!? Despite decades of digital decay, The Washington Post’s 1998 copy of the Starr Report is still alive

“Of the 21 news organizations in our study, 19 were not taking any protective steps at all to archive their web output”

Shan WangApril 12, 2018

Here’s how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published

“We like to think of ourselves as the paper of record, but then it’s important that we actually keep those records.”

Christine SchmidtMarch 5, 2018

Apologies for the clickbait, but: Public media archives. Gamified transcription. Go ahead and click

It might not be the sexiest journalism innovation, but WGBH is hoping to keep public radio and public television’s massive archives alive and useful by harnessing the power of dopamine.

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.”

Shan WangSeptember 28, 2017

The internet isn’t forever. Is there an effective way to preserve great online interactives and news apps?

“I like to talk about it as reading today’s news on tomorrow’s computer.”