All the Print that’s fit to Digitize

By Michael Cervieri in briefsNews on September 9, 2008

Google is expanding a program to digitize newspaper archives and has begun scanning microfilm from some 100 newspapers. The plan is to make the content available first through Google News and then through the papers’ Web properties. Ads will appear alongside the articles. Score one for archive junkies. The jury’s still out for publishers.

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Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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