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Press Releases
HCRC to Create Black Newspaper Digital Archive
Columbia, Mo. (Dec. 3, 2004) - Starting in January 2005, the HCRC will begin work on the creation of a digital archive of black newspapers from around the nation.
This is a side project to the joint HCRC/St. Louis University NCI-funded grant to better understand the role that black newspapers play in providing information and motivation to make healthy decisions in black communities.
The NCI-funded archive will consist of four years worth of 24 black newspapers, resulting in a digital archive of nearly 5,000 papers.
“This bonus funding is especially gratifying because it means that the black newspapers we are collecting will be available forever as a snapshot of black news, commentary and advertising early in the new century,” said Glen T. Cameron, co-director of the HCRC. "We expect that scholars from all over the world will take advantage of this resource."
The scanning will be done by the University of Missouri Systems Libraries Digital Archive Center. The digital scan files will be stored in the project office at the Missouri School of Journalism until additional funding is secured to make the digital files full-text searchable records.
The HCRC will work in tandem with members of the newspaper and broadcast sequences, such as Professor Earnest Perry, to seek foundation funding to enhance features of the archive and to promote it to researchers so that it is widely used.
“We are very pleased to provide the opportunity for the Missouri School of Journalism to continue its leadership role in increasing diversity by providing a digital archive of thousands of pages of black newspapers,” said Cameron, professor and Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the Missouri School of Journalism.
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