"All that work was published online, too. But with several changes in the content management system in the 26 years since I started at the St. Joseph (Missouri) News-Press, only four of those stories still live on that newsroom's site. I've reported on journalists have to do to save their own digital archives for years. And I've always thought of it more as an individual issue."
"This Press Forward-funded project from the Internet Archive, IRE and Poynter will work with 300 local newsrooms of all shapes, sizes and mediums over the next two years to make sure those drafts get preserved and people have access to them. We'll host three groups a year, with three live virtual sessions and three asynchronous sessions for the newsrooms chosen to take part."
A clear tub of five years of newspaper clippings remains as the only physical record from an early journalism job, while most published work vanished online after content management changes. Newspaper archives are essential for research and for verifying historical claims, as institutional narratives often conflict with contemporaneous reporting. Loss of these records enables rewriting of local history and undermines public access to the first draft of events. A Press Forward-funded program called Today's News for Tomorrow, run by Internet Archive, IRE and Poynter, will work with 300 local newsrooms over two years to preserve web-born drafts through training and access to archiving services.
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