"Digital Media Layoffs: The Erosion of Journalistic Work and Revenue"
Media outlets like Vice have faced concerns about website deletion as they pivot away from traditional journalism, leaving journalists scrambling to save their work. While technical challenges exist in maintaining defunct websites, experts argue that it is not prohibitively expensive to host static page archives. Despite the vital work of organizations and tools to archive the internet, the responsibility should not fall solely on journalists, especially when media executives have been criticized for overpaying themselves while their companies struggle.