Memphis TV Station Uses Archives As Online Resource

As newsrooms get smaller, one of my worries is what will become of newsroom archives. Newspapers are doing away with librarians, and TV station archives are often a total mess because some overworked chief editor is in charge of them.

That is why I was so thrilled to see this project from WHBQ-TV in Memphis, Tenn. It is fairly rare to see a local TV station invest so much energy in a non-commercial Web site, especially one dedicated to local history. The site, titled “A View From the Mountaintop,” brings together remarkable videos from the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike. The strike, and the demonstrations that followed, attracted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and generated the hatred that ultimately cost him his life.

Source: Al’s Morning Meeting

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