2 from On the Media: US Gov’t Electronic Records and the Supposed Death of the Newspaper Industry
I don’t normally listen to the National Public Radio program On the Media, but I happened to catch two stories on this week’s episode definitely worth mentioning here.
1) Like many archival repositories, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the archives that handle many important United States government records, like those from the Office of the President, are dealing with how to accept, preserve, and store electronic records. Saving the Days details some of those challenges and NARA’s actions to try to keep up with the Digital Age.
2) The real story about whether newspapers are declining is not getting out, argues a site called Newspaper Project, which tries to show a more accurate picture of what’s happening in the media industry. Since many media outlets only cover bad news, they focus on the decline rather than the growth in news consumers and other good news.
I have a feeling were I to listen to the show regularly, I would find myself blogging many of the programs.
