14 graduate students receive scholarships to attend digital news preservation event at UCLA

14 graduate students receive scholarships to attend digital news preservation event at UCLA. Selected across the U.S., they receive IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program travel aid for Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News, Oct. 13–14, 2016, at UCLA (listed as Online/Virtual professional development), to build a national born-digital news preservation agenda with journalists, technologists, librarians and other stakeholders, and propose, pitch and complete projects supporting forum goals. The Reynolds Journalism Institute Journalism Digital News Archive initiative is funded by RJI and an Institute of Museum and Library Services Award, supported by UCLA Library, University of Missouri Libraries and Educopia Institute; speakers represent The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Library of Congress, with Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett as special guest.

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