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Beyond news: understanding the role of archives in journalism businesses
Most news publishers are terrible at maintaining their archives. But their are solid business and journalistic reasons for doing so.
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Tom Petty, from News UK's archives
This is lovely: > R.I.P Tom Petty, scanning negs from archive today from a London visit in the 1990's...#TomPetty [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TomPetty?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #TomPettyRIP [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TomPettyRIP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #travelingwilburys
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Digital journalism's history replaced by a spam blog. The irony.
Finishing the day’s blogging on a sad note: > So it appeared that Lim (or someone working for him) had obtained control of OJR.org — presumably just by buying the domain once it had expired, although we don’t know that — and created as close of a facsimile of
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The FT fills Tumblr with 125 years of hot air
An e-mail arrived from the FT yesterday, telling me all about their 125th anniversary, and with some lovely photos to run – all of which I had no intention of doing until: 1. My journalism MA students [http://www.interhacktives.com] seemed to think the whole think was quite cool, making
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Cool Content: Sarah Ellis is digitising Shakespeare
Live-blogged notes from Sarah Ellis’s talk at the Cool Content conference in Brighton.
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Your archive content is valuable
What’s the value in archive content? More than you might think. Too many publishing businesses are caught up in the idea of the now, and they miss the value of the then. A huge amount of archive and historical content is shared around the blogsphere and social media every
The UK's cultural heritage as digital public space
Liveblogged notes from sessions at the Open Data Cities Conference
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There's gold in them there content archives
Don't let a focus on news blind you to value in your archive.
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A Few Slightly Geeky Journo Links
Time for some links: * One of the most consistent themes I hear when talking to journalists around the country is frustration with the web publishing CMS they have to deal with (especially if they’ve ever used any blog platform). In that light, this post about the BBC’s new
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From the 90s
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/408782592/ "photo sharing")A Gig At QMW circa 1992 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/408782592/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/
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More from the archive
A photo of Roy Tinworth, my Dad, from the 1960s.
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A face from the past
The picture above is a real piece of family history. Having the chance to look at, preserve and even publish this makes me very thankful for modern technology. My uncle posted this and a large range of other old pictures to my Mum, as he was cleaning out Grandma’s