Minus proper archives, news outlets risk losing years of backstories forever

From Columbia Journalism Review Mon Jul 21 2014, 17:41:40

By Lene Sillesen Print stories can be lost, but digital stories last forever, captured for eternity in some nebulous internet ether or on a hard drive in a desk drawer. At least, that's the vague theory assumed by many producers and consumers of digital news. Once something is posted or backed up, it never really disappears--and if that's true, archiving digital work seems...

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