LEADER 03312cam a2200421 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20210218124012.0 007 ta 008 161212s2017 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 2016043888 020 9781442267121 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 9781538126226 (pbk. : alk. paper) 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |erda |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 PN4855 |b.H26 2017 082 00 071/.3 |223 100 1 Hansen, Kathleen A., |d1954- |eauthor. 245 10 Future-proofing the news : |bpreserving the first draft of history / |cKathleen A. Hansen, Nora Paul. 260 Lanham : |bRowman & Littlefield, |c2017. 300 xvii, 255 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 News coverage is often described as the first draft of history. From the publication in 1690 of the first American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, to the latest tweet, news has been disseminated to inform its audience about what is going on in the world. But the preservation of news content has had it technological, legal, and organizational challenges. Over the centuries, as new means of finding, producing, and distributing news were developed, the methods used to ensure future generations' access changed, and new challenges for news content preservation arose. This book covers the history of news preservation (or lack thereof), the decisions that helped ensure (or doom) its preservation, and the unique preservation issues created by each new form of media. All but one copy of Publick Occurrences were destroyed by decree. The wood pulp-based newsprint used for later newspapers crumbles to dust. Early microfilm disintegrates to acid, and decades of microfilmed newspapers have already dissolved in their storage drawers. Early radio and television newscasts were rarely captured, and when they were, the technological formats for accessing the tapes have lone been superseded. Sounds and images stored on audio- and videotapes fade and become unreadable. The early years of web publication by news organizations were lost by changes in publishing platforms and a false security that everything on the Internet lives forever. In fifty or a hundred years, what will we be able to retrieve from today's news output? How will we tell the story of this time and place? Will we have better access to news produced in 1816 than news produced in 2016? These are some of the questions Future-Proofing the News aims to answer. -- Back cover. 650 0 Journalism |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Journalism |xTechnological innovations |zUnited States. 650 0 American newspapers |xHistory. 650 0 Newspapers |xConservation and restoration |zUnited States. 650 0 Newspaper publishing |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Press law |zUnited States. 700 1 Paul, Nora, |d1953- |eauthor. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6071_000000000000000__3_HAN |70 |8REF |9129726OSA |bOSA |d2020-10-07 |eOSA |l0 |o071/.3 HAN |r2020-10-07 |w2020-10-07 |yBK |cReference 920 01 jYx8W4Yq 992 01 071_000000000000000__3_HAN |bZSY_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ__W_IPC 966 |cIn the Research Room