Research
Survey: Journalists’ most urgent training needs are mobile, data and video
Respondents say they’d try bite-size lessons on their phone to learn digital skills.
White paper: Two days dedicated to Dodging the Memory Hole
This white paper summarizes the Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving online news event, with overviews of the panels and presentations, and projects produced by groups at the conference as well as student scholarship recipients. On Oct. 13–14, 2016, University of Missouri Libraries, in collaboration with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, UCLA Library and … Continued
Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 4
The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.
Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 3
The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.
Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 2
The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.
Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 1
The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.
John Berlin: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL
John Berlin of Suffolk, Virginia, is a computer science student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he works for the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group. His project is a report titled “Dodging the Memory Hole Project Report: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL.” The project seeks to extend the … Continued
Hanna Soltys: DTMH 2016 Scholarship Project
Hanna Soltys of St. Louis studies library and information science at Simmons College in Boston. Her project focuses on a look at the landscape of digital news, why digital news archiving solutions aren’t one-size fits all due to dynamic content and social media and examines solutions from other industries and entities working to save digital … Continued
Matthew Hellman: Collective Cookbook: Best practices in visual archiving between news organizations
Matt Hellman of Austin, Texas, is a journalism student at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His project involves a case study of how the Columbia Missourian photography staff is using open source software to provide access to and create a cloud-based long-term archive for digital content. The final product is a professional project titled … Continued
Terry Britt: Saving the future past: Digital news content archiving
Terry Britt of Sweetwater, Tennessee, is a doctoral candidate studying journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His paper deals with deterioration of collective memory over time. Alongside a review of relevant literature on the challenges of media content preservation, both pre-digital and born-digital, and efforts toward that end, responses from a recent qualitative … Continued