Institutional archiving of media is neither new nor strange. The United States Library of Congress has been preserving printed materials, newspapers, photographs, film, and even websites for decades—if not centuries. After seven years, in later 2017, the initiative to build a Twitter Archive came to a halt. Through a textual analysis of policy papers, preservation theories and press releases, this study illustrates the social, cultural, and symbolic challenges of institutional archiving of digital media.

This study uses a real national crisis, South Korea's 2014 Sewol ferry disaster, to examine how publics exposed to partisan media perceive the attribution of crisis responsibility and government trust differently. The study also investigates the mediating role of the attribution of crisis responsibility on the relationship between partisan media and government trust. The results demonstrate that citizens' partisan selective exposure influence their polarized perceptions of crisis responsibility and their trust in government. The attribution of crisis responsibility partially mediated the effects of partisan media on government trust. This study suggests the importance for government public relations to understand partisan media users so that public relations managers can engage and communicate effectively with all citizens during a national crisis.

After World War II, American Society of Newspaper Editors members focused on sharing their journalistic ideals with Soviet journalists. Between 1961 and 1970 Soviet journalists travelled to the United States, ASNE members travelled to the Soviet Union to encourage greater free flows of information between both countries. This study provides insights into American editors' transnational activities and attempts to spread Western journalistic ideals during the Cold War. Drawing on archival records, this article examines what motivated American editors to participate in journalism exchanges with journalists in a communist country, how American editors presented the Soviet Union to American readers, and whether American editors suggested these exchanges could advance information flows between both nations. Analysis of extensive primary sources indicates American editors contrasted their freedoms with Soviet controls. Editors' diary entries, correspondence, and articles described Americans' advocacy for journalists to receive greater access to information, places, and people.

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This entry provides an introduction to the practice of parachute journalism, including an overview of past and present research on the topic and suggestions for future research. As an international trend, parachute journalism is the practice of “parachuting” journalists into foreign regions to report on breaking news before returning home. This entry highlights the normative debate on the topic by tracing the long‐standing critiques against the practice as well as the more recent arguments advocating for the benefits of the practice to foreign correspondence.