Via Columbia Journalism Review
October 28, 2025
Who’s Going to Save Local Newspaper Archives?
Archivists worry in particular about photographs that have never been digitized
"Frank LoMonte, a University of Georgia law professor who has studied the loss of photo archives from local newspapers, estimates that only a small minority of papers have the financial resources and foresight to proactively safeguard their archives. LoMonte especially worries about unpublished photographs, because they provide an unfiltered perspective on what life was like—and offer a window into how editors at the time chose to portray major news events, and what they chose not to include. “The loss to history from the purging of photo morgues is unquantifiable,” he said. " - click for full article
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