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What is Preserve This Podcast?

Preserve This Podcast is a grant-funded education and outreach project led by a team of three professional archivists. The project entails producing a podcast and supplementary zine addressing how podcasters can preserve their work for the future, and hosting a series of promotional and educational workshops and panel talks.

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What is this zine?

The zine accompanies the Preserve This Podcast podcast. We encourage you to give that a listen first, then read this zine and follow the exercises. An online version of this zine, and the podcast, can be found at preservethispodcast.org.

Why podcasts?

Podcasts are at risk of disappearing in the face of rapid shifts in platform, delivery, and recording technology. These issues are endemic to mass media technologies to date (such as reel-to-reels, VHS tapes, and CDs). But born-digital content has received less attention - and it's more at risk. Digital files can be easily erased, corrupted, and are at the mercy of the economic viability of third-party streaming and hosting platforms.

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