In preparing for the 2017 eDesiderata Forum, CRL recommends the following articles and reports that provide some insight into the current digital news landscape. 

On managing news assets by producers:

• Center for Research Libraries, Preserving News in the Digital Environment  [14](2011), CRL. 
  Study undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries to map the “lifecycle” of news content published in print and on the Web.
• Jane Coulter and Evan Sandhaus How to Build a Times Machine [15] (2016), The New York Times.
  A detailed account of the process The Times used in creating and expanding the TimesMachine and the interesting technical challenges of providing access to a digital NYT archive. 
• Chuck Fishman. Past and Present: The Evolution of Media Company CMS Platforms, [16] Acquia blog, October 15, 2015.
  The first in a series of blog posts from Acquia (web development company) offers an introduction to content management systems and their uses in the media sector. 
• PBS. The PBS Core Data Model: an Overview [17].
  Information on PBS's new digital core data model for organizing, relating, and presenting local and national PBS digital content.

On scholarly uses of digital news:

• Mary Feeney, What Can Text Mining Reveal about the Use of Newspapers in Research? [18] (2017) IFLA. 
  This paper examines the relative frequency of newspaper titles (local and national) cited in scholarly literature using a text mining tool and the JSTOR archive.
• James Danowski and Noah Cepela, Automatic Mapping of Social Networks: Time Series Analysis of News Sentiment and Presidential Job Approval [19] (2010), Annals of Information Systems: V. 12, (pp 31-46).
  Chapter describing Danowski's work in mining social networks among presidential cabinet members based on their co-occurrence in news stories. The research sought to test hypotheses about presidential cabinet network centrality and  presidential job approval over time.
• The Driving Force Project [20] (2014)
  Overview of a project of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science led by Nick Adams, to mine news accounts of the 2011 Occupy movement for an analysis of police and protester interactions. 
• Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Eliza Shearer, The modern news consumer: news attitudes and practices in the digital era [21] (2016) Pew Research Center.
  Summary of a two-part 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center on the defining traits of the modern news consumer. 

On libraries and news preservation:

• Gina M. Jones, Michael Neubert (Library of Congress), Using RSS to Improve Web Harvest Results for News Web Sites [22] (2017), Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 8: Iss. 2, Article 3.
  ​Case study describing Library of Congress use of RSS feeds to build customized seed lists for web harvesting of online news.
• Dorothy Carner, Edward McCain, and Fredrick Zarndt, An international survey of born digital legal deposit policies and practices [23] (2015), IFLA.
  A follow-on to the 2014 IFLA paper Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity [24], this paper presents the results of a survey of born-digital legal deposit policies and practices worldwide, and the ramifications of their survey findings. 
• Debora Cheney, Chuck Palsho, Chris Cowan, Fredrick Zarndt, The Future of Online Newspapers [25] (2011) Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference.
  Presentation from the 2011 Charleston Library Conference on the changes in content creation and distribution of newspapers, and the impact of these trends on libraries. 

Nicholas Adams is a Research Fellow of Social Science at The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Adams founded and leads the Computational Text Analysis Working Group at Berkeley’s D-Lab and BIDS' Text Across Domains (Text XD) initiative. His research focus is on governance, the use of force and legitimation processes, utilizing innovative new text analysis approaches. 

Clifford Anderson is the Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Vanderbilt University Libraries. Mr. Anderson is involved in academic librarianship, software engineering, and digital humanities projects. He is currently a principal investigator on a planning effort, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to examine and address the technical, legal, and economic challenges of preserving broadcast television news in the twenty-first century.

Bryan Benilous is the Director of Newspaper Products Division for East View Information Services (EVIS). Mr. Benilous leads a division tasked with growing a portfolio of digitized newspapers from around the world at EVIS. 

Dorothy Carner is the Head of Journalism Libraries and Adjunct Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri. Ms. Carner oversees both the Frank L. Martin Journalism Library and the Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library, and is part of a team working on digital news preservation issues which includes a recent survey of e-legal deposit at national libraries.

James Danowski is a Communication Professor (retired) in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Danowski taught quantitative research methods for doctoral students at UIC. His teaching and research centers on semantic network analyses of big data text from social media, email, and news. 

Mary Feeney is the Social Sciences Librarian in the Research and Learning Department at University of Arizona Libraries. Ms. Feeney provides instructional and research support for faculty and students and manages the library’s collection of newspapers and news databases. She has presented and written about the use of newspapers by researchers, managing collections, text mining and the digital humanities.

Robert Lee is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for East View Information Services. Mr. Lee joined East View Information Services in 2007, where he oversees development of alliances with academic, commercial, and government institutions. His work at East View focuses largely on Russia, East Asia, and the Middle East, and the creation of content solutions to support research in the social sciences, STM, and global news media. 

Ann Okerson is the Senior Adviser on Electronic Resources for the Center for Research Libraries. Ms. Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries as Senior Advisor in fall 2011. She served as Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University for 15 years, where she organized the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL). 

Patrick Reakes is the Associate Dean Scholarly Resources & Services at George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Mr. Reakes’ s current research focuses on the impact of the evolving digital environment on news archiving and the uses of news in research.

Evan Sandhaus is the Executive Director of Knowledge and Metadata Management at The New York Times.  Mr. Sandhaus leads teams responsible for populating and organizing The Times’ 165-year-old archive. He led creation of the TimesMachine retrospective database, directed The Times Linked Open Data initiative, and collaborated with major search companies on schema.org.

Philip Spiegel is currently Senior Director for Content Management Operations at the LAC Group, and has led development and implementation of digital asset management capabilities for several major U.S. broadcast networks.  Mr. Spiegel has over 20 years of experience as a media archive and asset management professional, preserving, managing and monetizing film, video and image content and providing transparency, access and opportunity in the enterprise libraries of major media organizations. 

Mark Sweeney is the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. Since 2015 Mr. Sweeney has been responsible for carrying out activities in support of the library’s key mission, which is to acquire, organize, provide access to, maintain, secure, and preserve a universal collection. Previously, Sweeney served as preservation director and chief of the Serials and Government Publications Division. He coordinated the library’s role in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) and also served as program manager for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).