Writing, video and storytelling tips from epic Super Bowl ads
The 54th Super Bowl will feature an ad on Mexican avocados, a few presidential candidates,…
January 27, 2020
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After watching Gothamist and DNAinfo disappear, this journalist built a tool to help others save their own archives
When Gothamist and DNAinfo suddenly shut down earlier this month, Ben Welsh, data editor at the Los Angeles…
November 20, 2017
From pulp to pixel: The Minneapolis Star Tribune has digitized every article since 1867
On Friday, Jan. 5, 1979, Prince made page 1D of the Minneapolis Star. The piece…
May 5, 2017
What the Trump tapes can teach us about news archives
The recent emergence of the bombshell "Access Hollywood" clip that sat in the NBC vaults…
October 11, 2016
The Washington Post dug into the archives for stories about and by women
The first time Julia Carpenter's editor took her to the archives at The Washington Post's…
March 30, 2016
How The New York Times is using unpublished images from the archives to tell stories it missed the first time
Before heading into The New York Times' photo archives, Darcy Eveleigh made a list of…
February 2, 2016
How to preserve your work before the Internet eats it
When he first started his career as a journalist, Kevin Vaughan carefully clipped each story,…
January 14, 2016
Tips from the Financial Times on evergreen journalism
Can a journalism project be both timely and timeless? As with many news organisations, we…
October 26, 2015
Does the rise of ephemeral content spell the death of archives?
As news sites negotiate with Facebook to publish material directly on the platform, Facebook’s role in determining…
June 16, 2015
Knight grants $1 million to expand library of TV news broadcasts
Knight Foundation The Knight Foundation has given $1 million to the Internet Archive so it…
May 23, 2013
Google drops its newspaper archive project
The Boston Phoenix Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease…
May 20, 2011