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The expense of digital preservation for the news producer will vary depending on how much of the effort is managed in-house. By collaborating with those who already have the infrastructure, the cost to news agencies could be very little indeed.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Digital preservation: How much is it going to cost, and who can I work with?
Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information, discusses the special qualities of born-digital news and why it should be preserved for the benefit of all society.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Saving born-digital news: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Journalists take note: the internet eats your stories for lunch. News professionals who assume someone else is saving their digital output are often shattered to find they have little or nothing to show for years of stressful work on deadline.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Learning to JAM in 5 steps: New initiative reminds journalism students to archive their digital work
Most recent news content resides in the back rooms and basements of news agencies across the country. It’s scattered through various forms of media, in all kinds of formats, and often with little organization, management or care.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Digital preservation: What needs to be done?
Online news content, today’s first rough draft of history, lasts about 100 days — the lifespan of a common flea. Addressing this urgent threat to cultural memory requires immediate action by individuals from all parts of society.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Register for a free webinar to preview DTMH 2016 at UCLA
Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News forum organizers today announced a travel scholarship program for select graduate students to attend the forum at the UCLA Library on Oct. 13 and 14.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Travel scholarships available for graduate students to attend DTMH 2016 at UCLA
A team of industry leaders establish an Importance/Difficulty Matrix in order to chart ideas by relative importance and difficulty for furthering public-private partnerships.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Take Action! Public-Private Partnerships: Importance/Difficulty Matrix
Edward McCain interviews Brian Hocker about the cooperative project between the Dallas NBC station and the University of North Texas. Hocker is vice president of digital media, programming and research at KXAS-TV, NBCUniversal, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Take Action! Public-Private Partnerships: Brian Hocker and Edward McCain
Hocker discusses how the NBC 5 / KXAS archives became part of the University of North Texas' Portal to Texas History.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Keynote: Brian Hocker, KXAS-TV, NBCUniversal
Among the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants is funding for the Journalism Digital News Archive’s Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News conference.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute Blog.