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Web archiving

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, web archiving means: Preserving versions of web pages or other online material so they can be consulted after the live content changes.

In Turkish: web arşivleme

How it is used

Use to preserve online evidence; record capture time and check which elements the archive actually saved.

Example sentences

  1. Web archiving preserved the company's original safety statement before it was rewritten.

    A preserved version permits comparison with later changes.

  2. Our web archiving captured the article text but failed to save the embedded video.

    An archived page may be incomplete even when its main text survives.

Common collocations

  • web archiving tool
  • web archiving workflow
  • preserve evidence through web archiving
  • verifyTo check carefully that information, a photo, a video or a source is real and true before you use or publish it.
  • investigative journalismJournalism that spends weeks or months uncovering hidden information, often about wrongdoing, corruption or abuse of power, using documents, data and confidential sources.

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