What is it about?
The preservation of born-digital news is different than the practices surrounding preservation of analog content. This presentation identifies some of the key factors that affect our ability to provide long-term access to news content that was created on a computer chip or digital sensor.
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Why is it important?
Our ability to reliably access accurate accounts of event through the "first draft of history" is critical to scholarship and as a fundamental accountability mechanism for public institutions and the democratic process.
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This page is a summary of: Panel, June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2910896.2926739.
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