How Vogue monetizes old content | Felix Salmon
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:13
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 profes…
New York: The Cut: Vogue’s New Archive Site Costs $1,575 for a Yearly Subscription
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:09
“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, desi…
Out-Law: Expert says ‘right to be forgotten’ could cause problems for publishers
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:29
“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 …
Roy Greenslade: British Library to digitise old newspapers and place them online
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 07:42
"The British Library is to digitise up to 40m newspaper pages and then make them available online. They will include papers – local, regional and national – dating back to the early 1700s."
Washington Post: Story Lab: Is it ever ok to unpublish a story?
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 11:38
Marc Fisher: "just because it is technically possible to unpublish a digital story in a way that was never possible in the ink-on-paper world does not make it right to do so."
Mediabistro: FishbowlNY: Wikipedia Breathes New Life Into Seminal Scientology Expose
Monday, 15 March 2010, 22:22
"Over the weekend, prominent placement on Wikipedia's main page launched a nearly twenty-year-old Time magazine article about Scientology onto the Time site's 'most-read' list."
Common Sense Journalism: ‘Unpublishing’ – the growing challenge for editors/publishers
Sunday, 10 January 2010, 21:16
"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."
paidContent:UK: Outdated Libel Laws To Be Updated For Online Age
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 19:59
"A two-month Ministry of Justice consultation launched on Thursday asks whether the current laws—under which claimants must sue within 12 months of an article’s publication—are outdated now that stories are available for years in online archives."
Mediactive: Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization
Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:25
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
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 22:03
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
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 10:27
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
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 08:36
"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."
Nieman Journalism Lab: NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives through automation
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 21:32
"NPRbackstory uses Google’s Hot Trends data to determine what topics people have suddenly started searching for in large numbers. It uses NPR’s API to search the archives, then uses Yahoo Pipes to create an RSS feed that then gets cycled into the NPRbackstory Twitter account."
Press Gazette: European court rejects time limit for online libel claim
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 16:55
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'."
