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To preserve their work, journalists take archiving into their own hands
From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
And those examples are just from the past couple of months; in 2021, the authors of a Reynolds Journalism Institute report found that just 7 out of 24 newsrooms they interviewed were fully preserving their news content. Web pages, photographs, and text stories are easier to save than audio files, interactives, and other types of digital journalism; to preserve those, journalists often have to get creative. Matthew organized a Signal chat with current and former Vice employees who wanted their work saved, and in one weekend, Karen and their friend Chris scraped more than 60 author tags.
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