Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:16:09 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [128.54.63.218] (HELO [10.71.0.195]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPS id 6106788 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:43:09 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:47:52 -0800 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: The Long Tail of News report Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-948699402==_ma============" --============_-948699402==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I recently read a very interesting report titled "The Long Tail of News" prepared by Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star newspaper. This is a discussion, from the perspective of newspapers, of the growing issue of demands to "unpublish" articles that are persistently visible through search engines such as Google. This discussion has implications for the integrity of the historical record, and also some interesting connections to the issues that libraries, archives and other institutions face in digitizing collections, and will, I think, be of interest to some members of the CNI community. Information on the study, and a pointer to the report, can be found at http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4532 I'm grateful to Melinda Burns for the pointer to this report. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI --============_-948699402==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" The Long Tail of News report
I recently read a very interesting report titled "The Long Tail of News" prepared by Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star  newspaper. This is a discussion, from the perspective of newspapers, of the growing issue of demands to "unpublish" articles that are persistently visible through search engines such as Google. This discussion has implications for the integrity of the historical record, and also some interesting connections to the issues that libraries, archives and other institutions face in digitizing collections, and will, I think, be of interest to some members of the CNI community.

Information on the study, and a pointer to the report, can be found at

http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4532


I'm grateful to Melinda Burns for the pointer to this report.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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