home Uncategorized He Had It Coming: How archives keep giving, almost a century later

He Had It Coming: How archives keep giving, almost a century later

When Marianne Mather visited the archives in the Chicago Tribune, what she found inspired her to co-author a book, “He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories”

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home Uncategorized RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech

RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech

As another year ends, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute reflects on some of its accomplishments and lessons learned with a mission of helping journalism survive and thrive.

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home Uncategorized Print archives show past impeachments. Where will we go to find the history being made today?

Print archives show past impeachments. Where will we go to find the history being made today?

After Trump released a partial transcript of the call with Ukraine, Washington Post readers were treated to an almost exact parallel from 45 years ago. “That time Nixon released doctored transcripts during Watergate.”

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home Uncategorized Saving history from disappearing

Saving history from disappearing

The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and University of Missouri Libraries received a $250,000 grant this fall from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help ensure the survival of today’s digital news record for future generations.

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home Uncategorized RJI Fellow wants to make media, tech companies more aware of need to preserve content

RJI Fellow wants to make media, tech companies more aware of need to preserve content

Nineteen of 21 news outlets weren’t doing anything to archive web content. A lack of awareness and action in this area has driven Neil Mara to leverage his industry experience and contacts to help find archiving solutions for media companies.

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home Uncategorized Is universal access to all knowledge an attainable goal?

Is universal access to all knowledge an attainable goal?

Imagine a world with unlimited access to any and all kinds of information. There’d be no barriers to learning. Books, music, video, software and other media would be freely available to everyone. Brewster Kahle dreams about creating such a world.

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home Uncategorized Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church… oh, and a little fight to preserve truth

Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church… oh, and a little fight to preserve truth

At the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, technologists, educators, archivists, and others fact-oriented folks gathered to discuss how they and the like-minded can save news from the memory hole.

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home Uncategorized Changing media landscape adds yet another challenge to archivists of born-digital news content

Changing media landscape adds yet another challenge to archivists of born-digital news content

At Dodging the Memory Hole 2017, the changing landscape of the news media underpinned presentations by stakeholders and digital preservation practitioners who think about this issue on a daily basis.

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home Resources and Services Gotta catch ’em all: Archiving digital content such as social media should include linked objects

Gotta catch ’em all: Archiving digital content such as social media should include linked objects

In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next.

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home Resources and Services Hjalmar Gislason: Keynote speaker: Digital salvage operations — what’s worth saving?

Hjalmar Gislason: Keynote speaker: Digital salvage operations — what’s worth saving?

Self-proclaimed data nerd Hjalmar Gislason is the vice president of data for visual analytics software company Qlik.

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