As major news outlets including USA Today Co. and the New York Times restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the vast collection of web pages.
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There are countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good, and it’s a tool that’s commonly used for investigative reporting.
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“With many newspapers closed, and no clear path for local public libraries to preserve digital-only reporting, the work of safeguarding journalism’s record increasingly falls to the Internet Archive,” reads a letter of support signed by over 100 working journalists.
If the Wayback Machine continues to lose access to major news sources, its preservation efforts could erode to the point where early digital records of history become much harder to access, or are even lost altogether. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/the-in...