Comment by O1111OOO
3 days ago
Newspapers are failing at an astounding rate. Archive.org is just a (poor) scapegoat for their inability to survive. This makes the point everyone else is making even more important - that those stories need to be archived before they are lost for all time.
"Since the early 2000s, the U.S. has lost about 40% of its local newspapers and about 75% of the jobs in newspaper journalism, according to a 2025 report from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. A study published last year by Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack shows that in 2002, there were roughly 40 journalists per 100,000 people in the United States. Today, it’s down to about eight journalists."[0]
[0] https://theconversation.com/why-the-pittsburgh-post-gazettes...
There is a future where AI companies start hiring their own reporters, and it might be sooner rather than later.
Based on the coverage it looks a lot like journalists and publications have already been bought and paid for.