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Life & fun · August 16, 2014

NewsDiffs

Tracks edits to stories over time on major news sites.

NewsDiffs launched on August 16, 2014 with 66 votes, #852 of 2,208 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

NewsDiffs tracks changes in online news articles over time

NewsDiffs, which was born out of the Knight Mozilla MIT hackathon in June 2012, is trying to solve the problem of archiving news in the constantly evolving world of online journalism. It was recently added to the thousand sites archived by the Library of Congress. The New York Times highlighted NewsDiffs in the public editor's column (which had previously discussed the difficulties of revisions in the digital age). The next New York Times public editor even joined us for a 2013 SXSW panel ( slides available online ) The changes which have drawn the most attention are the addition of "on this issue" to a New York Times editorial about Obama after the PRISM disclosures, and the disappearance…from newsdiffs.org

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