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Hello, I'm a journalist working for the technology pages on the BBC News website. The good folks at the Society of Archivists said posting my question to this list would be the best way to get a response. I'm writing a feature about newspapers and their archives. As I understand it, paper copies of newspapers are independently archived but it is becoming apparent that digital editions are not. Newspapers archive the digital content they produce and actively prevent search engines crawling their websites to build up independent records. There are already a few cases where mistakes that appeared in the printed editions are not in the digital copies - the most well-knwon being Ronnie Hazlehurst's supposed connection to SClub7. Does this trend worry anyone? Not just the newspaper side but more generally on the creation and preservation of digital records. Is a lot of history at risk of being lost or airbrushed? All replies gratefully received. Many thanks Mark Ward Technology Correspondent BBC News Website T: 020 8576 8334 M: 07976 429022 E: [log in to unmask] W: http://www.bbc.co.uk/technews P: Room 4220, BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ