Introduction

Journalism History and Digital Archives

“…Yet, as most of the stored material is public, the web archive ought to be, Br€ ugger jokingly asserts, called a "webrary" (78; emphasis in the original). A final reason for talking about "digital newspaper archives" (1) rather than libraries-as Steel (2014) does in the introduction to a special issue of Media History on "Digital Newspaper Archival Research"is that approaching such repositories almost automatically concerns "developments and opportunities in the production, use and development of digital archives themselves" (Steel 2014, 1) as much as it concerns the stored content itself.…”