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  • defrost 42 minutes ago
    For any, like myself, wondering "Who is Ben Welsh" ?

      Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City.
    
      I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories.
    
      I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards, databases and automated systems that benefit clients, inform readers, empower reporters and serve the public interest.
    
      [...]
    
    ~ https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
    • yogorenapan 37 minutes ago
      Can't believe Ben Welsh is not Welsh, and FiveThirtyEight has nothing to do with Wales
  • nomilk 45 minutes ago
    Couldn't figure out why archiving FTE aricles matters, but a quick search yields:

    > Thousands of FiveThirtyEight articles seemingly vanish from the internet

    https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/thousands-of-five...

    And discussions here on hn:

    ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553

    Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (article by Nate himself) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703

  • internet2000 8 minutes ago
    I'm seeing a lot about this. What makes this situation different than any other website going offline?
  • nl 58 minutes ago
    This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.
    • bombcar 17 minutes ago
      Don't we need more than an index of Archive.org because whomever controls the domain could robots.txt these out of existence if they wanted to?
    • Avicebron 47 minutes ago
      Bourdieu. The field has structure, the structure has logics, the logics shape what counts as a publishable story, a promotable journalist, a credible source, a "balanced framing".
      • tantalor 25 minutes ago
        Please, say that again in comprehensible English.
        • Avicebron 20 minutes ago
          The ownership relationship was always load-bearing? The journalism in this case was a tenant, I highly recommend that people promote forms of independent journalism?

          EDIT: dude have you heard of the s in https, http://johntantalo.com gets flagged.

  • 3eb7988a1663 13 minutes ago
    If I wanted to get the complete WARC archive of 538 - how do you do this in a friendly way? No interest in history tracking, just want the last available version from Internet Archive.
  • ChocMontePy 2 hours ago
  • ChrisArchitect 19 minutes ago
    Love Ben but title can simply be: Index of FiveThirtyEight articles preserved by the Internet Archive