ABSTRACT
Traditionally, the term archive referred to collections of unpublished and unique documents or records and not to published material, which were stored in libraries. A related issue that emerged in this project are the cross-institutional interests in issues of archiving. While people working within archives focus on various issues of storing and making available different forms of content, journalism scholars may instead argue that such issues are better discussed in a journal of library studies and not within the field of journalism studies. With regard to the products of journalism, the move towards the digital and digitisation has generally made both accessing and searching archives much easier but has also produced degrees of decontextualization and issues of scal. Notions of scale and possible modes of analysis have caused an ongoing discussion of a shift from close reading of a discrete portion of an archive to distant reading of large volumes of material.
