I've made a variety of the argument before in favour of what we do making local newspapers: local newspapers are a record for the future of what happened in a place over time. They're in the British Library, can't be redone, erased or altered.

April 11, 2026 - 11:55 UTC

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One of the things missing from the Westminster government's local media strategy (as far as I remember) is any mention of how digital news sources and publications will be archived for the future. We're all relying on the Wayback Machine, which is not a great long term strategy
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It's a bit a perculiarity of history that 'the internet' has been treated as the realm of the consumer and business, but not of public service and public record. There's a good twenty odd years of incredibly important historic record depending on a company not deleting files to free up space one day
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Somewhere between the newspaper websites putting up paywalls/preventing being scraped and search engines becoming useless, I'm noticing it is easier to find local news stories from print archive even if the story was (and still is) online.
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