Nieman Lab·2026-04-15
Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed that these decisions, including a “hard block” by the Times that started late last year, were driven by publishers’ concern that the Internet Archive’s free library of webpage snapshots could be scraped
今年一月，哈娜·塔米兹（Hanaa’ Tameez）和我率先报道了《纽约时报》、《卫报》和今日美国公司已开始限制“互联网档案馆”（Wayback Machine）访问其新闻文章的消息。我们的报道显示，这些决定，包括《纽约时报》去年底开始的“硬性阻止”，是出于出版商担心互联网档案馆免费的网页快照库可能被抓取。