From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
Frankly, all content creators in the digital space need to do this. YouTubers have lost their entire corpus of work when YouTube deactivates their account. Same for artists on DA or Tumblr who get banned.
No one should be trusting someone else’s hosting service as their permanent backup. An 8 terabyte harddisk costs $100 at best buy.
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For some reason I first read the title as “journalists take to archiving their own hands” and thought this was some morbid kind of protest.
Frankly, all content creators in the digital space need to do this. YouTubers have lost their entire corpus of work when YouTube deactivates their account. Same for artists on DA or Tumblr who get banned.
No one should be trusting someone else’s hosting service as their permanent backup. An 8 terabyte harddisk costs $100 at best buy.