The emerging online-news ecosystem is full of memory holes left by journalism projects that did good work, but didn’t gain traction in the fickle commercial and nonprofit funding regimes.
Acknowledging the inevitability of entropy, I’m pleased to share that Newsdesk.org is now live as an archival site.
Newsdesk was established in 2000 as a source for noncommercial, public-interest journalism. It was one of the earliest experiments in the ongoing effort to establish a viable nonprofit option for independent, trustworthy news reporting.
From 2000–2011, Newsdesk reporters and editors produced a vast array of reportage covering topics of local, national and international concern.
The aim of the online archive is to preserve and improve access to their work, through an ongoing process of:
- Fully crediting all the almost two-dozen reporters, editors and photojournalists who contributed to Newsdesk over the years
- Correcting, improving and re-organizing taxonomies (categories and tags) to improve access to coverage
- Repairing broken links where possible
- Identifying third-party, archival links to lost reportage by partner organizations that are now defunct
- Ensuring this aggregate body of pathbreaking news coverage continues to illuminate issues that remain urgent and in motion to this day
Check it out at www.newsdesk.org!
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