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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”
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: He Had It Coming: How archives keep giving, almost a century later
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech
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.”
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Print archives show past impeachments. Where will we go to find the history being made today?
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Saving history from disappearing
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: RJI Fellow wants to make media, tech companies more aware of need to preserve content
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Is universal access to all knowledge an attainable goal?
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church… oh, and a little fight to preserve truth
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.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Changing media landscape adds yet another challenge to archivists of born-digital news content
In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Gotta catch ’em all: Archiving digital content such as social media should include linked objects
Self-proclaimed data nerd Hjalmar Gislason is the vice president of data for visual analytics software company Qlik.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Hjalmar Gislason: Keynote speaker: Digital salvage operations — what’s worth saving?