{"id":15281,"date":"2025-04-11T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/?p=15281"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:09:20","slug":"artifacts-history-group-chats-newspaper-archives-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/11\/artifacts-history-group-chats-newspaper-archives-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The artifacts preserving history: group chats, newspaper archives, handwritten notes"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/about\/subscribe-to-nieman-storyboard\/\"><em>Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter,<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;delivered every Friday in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Dear Storyboard community,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>This week I want to share three stories about how we preserve history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>First, I&#8217;m excited to share my latest Nieman Storyboard podcast conversation, <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/10\/wired-makena-kelly-elon-musk-doge-breaking-news-narratives\/\">with Wired senior writer Makena Kelly<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Over the past two-plus months, Wired has broken dozens of stories about Elon Musk and DOGE, and on March 13 they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai\/\">published a longform feature story<\/a> to zoom out and make sense of what was happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I interviewed Kelly on March 24, and she talked about how journalists communicate securely with their sources. For many reporters, this includes using the encrypted messaging app Signal. But as she warned:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>You need to be looking at your Signal messages that you&#8217;re sending to people and be like, somebody could take a screenshot of this and post it online. You need to be messaging people defensively.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Right as she was telling me this, The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffrey Goldberg was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/03\/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans\/682151\/\">publishing screenshots from a Signal group chat<\/a> that he&#8217;d been inadvertently added to, of top Trump administration officials discussing an impending U.S. military attack in Yemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Amid disappearing group chats and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/navajo-code-talkers-dei-pentagon-native-american-5ae814f99a5c5e00128613b2be9b554e\">disappearing historical documents<\/a>, journalists are doing important work in preserving everything we can.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/10\/wired-makena-kelly-elon-musk-doge-breaking-news-narratives\/\">Nieman Storyboard podcast: Wired\u2019s Makena Kelly on Elon Musk, DOGE, and breaking news narratives<\/a><\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/10\/wired-makena-kelly-elon-musk-doge-breaking-news-narratives\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Makena-Kelly-1024x762.png\" alt=\"Wired's Makena Kelly\" class=\"wp-image-15262\" style=\"width:600px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Makena-Kelly-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Makena-Kelly-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Makena-Kelly-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Makena-Kelly.png 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wired&#8217;s Makena Kelly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-html mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-16949207\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\/16949207-wired-s-makena-kelly-on-elon-musk-doge-and-breaking-news-narratives.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-16949207&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ Follow us in <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/nieman-storyboard\/id1804505440\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4cN4SOwf5Am05PoA9wckcA\">Spotify<\/a>, or your <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\">favorite podcast app<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/10\/wired-makena-kelly-elon-musk-doge-breaking-news-narratives\/\">Get the full show notes<\/a> ] <\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/09\/how-to-use-newspaper-archives-crafting-narrative\/\">Frank Bures on the value of newspaper archives to craft a narrative<\/a><\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/09\/how-to-use-newspaper-archives-crafting-narrative\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/July_13_1940_Page_1_of_16-copy-1024x773.png\" alt=\"Archival front page from the Minneapolis Star Journal.\" class=\"wp-image-15236\" style=\"width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/July_13_1940_Page_1_of_16-copy-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/July_13_1940_Page_1_of_16-copy-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/July_13_1940_Page_1_of_16-copy-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/July_13_1940_Page_1_of_16-copy.png 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Archival front page from the Minneapolis Star Journal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Meanwhile, Storyboard contributor Frank Bures has written a love letter to archivists, librarians, and local newspapers everywhere \u2014\u00a0discussing how he used digitized newspaper archives to <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/09\/how-to-use-newspaper-archives-crafting-narrative\/\">reconstruct the stories of a legendary canoe race<\/a> for his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/pushing-the-river-an-epic-battle-a-lost-history-a-near-death-and-other-true-canoeing-stories\/21693193\">&#8220;Pushing the River.&#8221;<\/a> When we lose local news and funding for libraries and archives, we lose critical windows into history.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/04\/09\/how-to-use-newspaper-archives-crafting-narrative\/\">Read the story<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hiv-aids-epidemic-crisis-statistics-broadway-theater-community.html\">Personal notes documenting the AIDS epidemic in New York City<\/a><\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hiv-aids-epidemic-crisis-statistics-broadway-theater-community.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MoB_Rent-png-1024x835.png\" alt=\"Tribute wall at the Museum of Broadway. (Photo courtesy Museum of Broadway.)\" class=\"wp-image-15288\" style=\"width:589px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MoB_Rent-png-1024x835.png 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MoB_Rent-png-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MoB_Rent-png-768x626.png 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MoB_Rent-png.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tribute wall at the Museum of Broadway. (Photo courtesy Museum of Broadway.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>And as part of New York magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/tags\/the-yesteryear-issue\/\">\u201cYesteryear\u201d<\/a> package on Broadway, journalist Mark Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hiv-aids-epidemic-crisis-statistics-broadway-theater-community.html\">weaves his own personal memories into a deeply moving story<\/a> about efforts to document how AIDS ravaged the artist and theater community in New York City in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. In this case, newspaper archives didn&#8217;t tell the real story:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Early in the following year, [actor David Carroll] collapsed and died at a recording session for the &#8220;Grand Hotel&#8221; cast album. He was 41. The New York Times obituary cited a pulmonary embolism as the cause of his death; it did not mention that he was suffering from complications related to AIDS. This was not atypical; for many years, \u201ccancer,\u201d \u201cpneumonia,\u201d and \u201ca long illness\u201d were used in obituaries, sometimes at the request of families who wanted to avoid any implication of AIDS and, sometimes, of homosexuality. Carroll\u2019s death was reported by his \u201ccompanion,\u201d Robert Homma, but Homma was not listed among his survivors at the end of the story. That word was mainly reserved for family members, not for lovers, boyfriends, or (in everything but the letter of the law) husbands. For years in the paper of record, no gay man who died of AIDS-related illnesses was survived by another gay man.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Harris writes about people who kept their own handwritten lists of friends they lost to AIDS, and recent efforts to share those stories through a documentary (still in the works and seeking funding) and a permanent exhibit at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuseumofbroadway.com\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw2N2_BhCAARIsAK4pEkVoKZaKCpMfhc3JIjJx_cFJwy25ZjWzfpLVqkSPI_aeoQFy07Jx0DIaAhA6EALw_wcB\">Museum of Broadway<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hiv-aids-epidemic-crisis-statistics-broadway-theater-community.html\">Read the story<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Finally, congrats to all of this year&#8217;s winners of the 2025 National Magazine Awards, announced Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/asme.memberclicks.net\/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-national-magazine-awards-2025-winners\">Get the complete winners list (and reading list) here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n         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