Endangered but not too late : the state of digital news preservation

"What we found in this research is that news organizations are saving digital news content to at least a limited extent, one that often depends on the kind of technologies where news content resides, their purpose, and other key factors. We found that the degree to which your existing content is accessible and useful depends not only on the technologies used, but also on your policies, if any, about what is saved. Other factors that affect access to content include the workflows used to assemble and store content, the metadata that’s saved with your content--or missing depending on how it is managed--whether or not you have staff dedicated to preservation work, and how well content translates when you undergo a transition from one technology platform to another, an inevitable fact of life in today’s publishing industry. News organizations that use either an archive or digital asset management (DAM) system of some kind have the most control of the content used to post, publish, broadcast or stream the news. They are also in the best position to find and access past content, understand its origins and licensing rights, reuse it for new products, tap it for newsroom research, publish it in related content links, and take full advantage of the long-tail phenomenon by reselling to the public or research community. ..."--Findings summar