title: Preserving Born-Digital News
creators: Edward McCain Hannah Sommers Martin Klein Christie Moffatt Abigail Potter Stéphane Reecht
abstract: The news industry has quickly adopted networked digital technologies to create and distribute their content across all media types and in an ever-increasing number of formats. These technologies have also enabled individuals to capture and share information, news, and opinion on contemporary and community events. These changes contribute to a dynamic news ecosystem, upending traditional publishing models that media companies, libraries, archives and memory institutions have depended on to save the news. In this panel, the challenges and opportunities of preserving born-digital news content will be presented and discussed. A preliminary environmental scan of the state of digital news preservation will be shared. Perspectives and tactics from the “front-line” of news creation will be covered in addition to establishing special collections to capture and preserve web sites that cover news events. Efforts to establish relationships with the creators of content management systems (CMS) that drive the back end of modern media publishing networks will also be presented, as will tools that have been developed to capture social media and other content from the web that contributes to the present day news ecosystem.
keywords: digital preservation digital curation chapel hill