Journalists’ Letter in Support of the Internet Archive

Over the past 30 years, the Internet Archive has quietly performed an essential service for journalism. In a digital media landscape where articles disappear due to link rot, corporate consolidation, or cost-cutting, reporters frequently rely on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to recover pages that would otherwise be lost. Without that ongoing work to preserve the web, large parts of journalism’s recent history would already be lost.

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Journalists are invited to join a letter thanking the Internet Archive for their respectful preservation of news and history and for being an important resource for their profession. This letter is coming at a time where many major media outlets are questioning whether to allow the Wayback Machine to continue to preserve journalism.

How to participate

Journalists can sign via the linked sign-on action form. Apply here.

For more information, please visit this page.