Category Archives: archives

How Vogue monetizes old content | Felix Salmon

Posted on by
Reply
Felix Salmon: "[Vogues'] archive will cost you $1,575 per year, but the price point makes sense to me. The value here is in the index: even if you had a full archive of Vogue back-issues sitting on your bookshelf (something many fashion-industry professionals spend much more than $1,575 to obtain), you still wouldn’t be able to find what you were looking for without great difficulty. ... Vogue is really two magazines in one: it’s a mass-market book for sale at supermarket checkout counters across the country, and at the same time it’s a very fashion-insidery bible which has featured every major designer, photographer, model, and ad campaign in the industry for longer than anyone can remember. The Vogue Archive is a way of monetizing the trade-mag part of Vogue’s identity without alienating any of the readers in flyover country."

New York: The Cut: Vogue’s New Archive Site Costs $1,575 for a Yearly Subscription

Posted on by
Reply
"Vogue's much-hyped archive website goes live today, and as promised, it contains every single page from every issue dating back to the magazine's American debut in 1892. According to Vogue's press release, the site is searchable by decade, brand, designer, and photographer; you can also sort results by articles, images, covers, or ads. ... However, accessing the archive is not quite so simple: For now, it's only available via subscription through WGSN, a trend forecasting company that partnered with Vogue to build the site, and an individual subscription costs a whopping $1,575 per year."

Out-Law: Expert says ‘right to be forgotten’ could cause problems for publishers

Posted on by
Reply
"Media law expert Kim Walker of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the 'right to be forgotten' would have a major effect in relation to news archives. He said that there would be great difficulty in determining what stories are in the public interest and what are not, and that the importance of stories may change over time."

Common Sense Journalism: ‘Unpublishing’ – the growing challenge for editors/publishers

Posted on by
Reply
"Kathy English, reader's representative for the Toronto Star ... looks at the growing number of requests for news organizations to 'unpublish' information in their digital archives and on their Web sites. ... English finds much the same thing we did - there is widespread opposition against unpublishing. But requests seem to be growing."

Mediactive: Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization

Posted on by
Reply
I particularly like number 3 on Dan Gillmor's list: "Every print article would have an accompanying box called 'Things We Don’t Know' — a list of questions our journalists couldn’t answer in their reporting. TV and radio stories would mention the key unknowns. Whatever the medium, the organization’s website would include an invitation to the audience to help fill in the holes, which exist in every story."

BBC: The Editors: Baby Peter and anonymity

Posted on by
Reply
Steve Herrmann: "On this occasion, there were indeed two stories in our own archive relating to the very early stages of the Baby Peter case which, if you searched for them, did give the names of the defendants. We did not republish or link to them from new stories, but on this occasion plenty of other people chose to do so. ... We removed the stories from our archive even though in practice the details were easy to find, and the information had already been reproduced and cached elsewhere on the internet. Now that the restrictions have been lifted we've reinstated the stories in the archive. Not, incidentally, a very practical or easy way of doing things if we had to do it very often."

Barack Obama on Newsweek

Posted on by
Reply
Newsweek brands its entity landing pages "Newsweekopedia": "With Newsweekopedia, we collect all the news coverage, commentary, photography and multimedia stories published by Newsweek over the years on subjects ranging from Abba to Zoology. Each page of this unmatched knowledge resource combines the world-class content with your comments and best coverage from other news sites."

Chronicle of Higher Education: Alumni Try to Rewrite History on College-Newspaper Web Sites

Posted on by
Reply
"As the [university newspapers] have begun digitizing their back issues, their Web sites have become the latest front in the battle over online identities. Youthful activities that once would have disappeared into the recesses of a campus library are now preserved on the public record, to be viewed with skeptical eyes by an adult world of colleagues and potential employers. Alumni now in that world are contacting newspapers with requests for redaction."

Press Gazette: European court rejects time limit for online libel claim

Posted on by
Reply
Bad news for newspaper web archives: "The Times has failed in its bid to challenge an obscure 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue newspapers for online libel without any time limit. ... The court said it had ruled on the facts of this case alone and would not 'consider in detail the broader chilling effect allegedly created by the application of the internet publication rule'."