How Two Local Newsrooms are Using Photo Archives to Connect with Readers

Newspapers may provide the proverbial “first rough draft of history”—though the provenance of that phrase may itself have been lost to history. But when history moves on, are there still ways to mine value from all that accumulated material, much of it sitting in dusty file cabinets?

Two newsrooms in the South believe there is. Papers in Alabama and Florida are digging through their photo archives, seeking—in different ways—not only to inform and entertain their readers, but engage their communities.