"Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories.

[josemurilo@mato.social]

"Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories.

Researchers, historians, and citizens around the world rely on the web archives of #localnews sites to do their work.

“Blocking the Internet Archive’s web #crawlers threatens one of the most effective ways that we capture and store news content for the long term.”"

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

Nieman Lab (www.niemanlab.org)