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Saving the news: When your server crashes, you could lose decades of digital news content — forever

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The term born-digital denotes data that originated from an electronic device; it was not scanned or captured from an analog state such as print on paper, photochemical photographs or magnetic audio or video tapes.  The consequences of losing this type of data from newspaper archives are heavy. 

Tom Warhover, executive editor for innovation at the Columbia Missourian, says: "You can't offer up a comprehensive product to sell – your archives – if they aren't complete. You can't be sure you've really vetted a candidate for school board or city council. You can't find those historical pieces from events that now are historic and worth reporting again on anniversaries." Read about a forum to address this – to be hosted by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

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