Meet Alex Belth, the Journalism Preservationist

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Most journalism products are disposable by nature. “News” becomes “old news,” and papers and magazines are chucked into the recycling bin. The most powerful features, essays, and profiles might find new life in a bound anthology, but those volumes often go out of print or are replaced in the J-school curriculum by whatever is fresh and new. Even the internet eventually forgets; webpages wash out into the sea of infinity, where reportage dissipates.

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