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The events of September 11th, 2001 affected the entire world.
The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis.
Television is our pre-eminent medium of information, entertainment and persuasion, but until now it has not been a medium of record. This Archive attempts to address this gap by making TV news coverage of this critical week in September 2001 available to those studying these events and their treatment in the media.
Explore 3,000 hours of international TV News from 20 channels over 7 days, and select analysis by scholars.
REFLECTING ON 9/11: Twenty Years of Archived TV News Webinar
On Sep 9, 2021 the Internet Archive will host an online webinar,
"Reflecting on 9/11: Twenty Years of Archived TV News."
Scholars, journalists, archivists, and data scientists will discuss the importance
of archived television to understand unfolding history.
Participants include the Internet Archive,
the American Archive of Public Broadcasting,
the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
Speakers will include:
●Roger Macdonald (Founder Internet Archive’s TV News Archive)
●Jim Duran (Director, Vanderbilt Television News Archives)
●Karen Cariani (David O Ives Executive Director/GBH Archives and GBH Project Director/American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
●Kalev Leetaru (Founder, Global Database of Events, Language and Tone Project)
●Phillip Bump (Washington Post national correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics)
10-years ago: LEARNING FROM RECORDED MEMORY: 9/11 TV News Archive Conference
Held on August 24, 2011 at New York University's Department of Cinema Studies, this conference highlighted work by scholars using television news materials to help us understand how TV news presented the events of 9/11/2001 and the international response.
After brief welcoming remarks by Howard Besser, Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program and Richard Allen, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 10 speakers presented the following short talks and ensuing discussion, which you can watch on the Internet Archive.
Introducing the 9/11 TV News Archive
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian at Internet Archive, introduces the 9/11 TV News Archive and reviews the case for online scholarly and research access to television news.
Mediated Meanings and Symbolic Politics: Exploring the Continued Significance of 9/11 News Coverage
Brian A. Monahan, Iowa State University
In-depth analysis of television news coverage of the September 11 attacks and their aftermath reveals how these events were fashionedinto 9/11, the politically and morally charged signifier that has profoundly shaped public perception, policy and practice in the last decade. Understanding how and why the coverage took shape as it did yields new insights into the social, cultural and political consequences of the attacks, while also highlighting the role of news media in the creation, affirmation and dissemination of meanings in modern life.
Fighting Ephemerality: Seeing TV News through the Lens of the Archive
Deborah Jaramillo, Boston University
The experience of watching the news on TV as events unfold is often complicated by the space of exhibition -- typically, the domestic space. When hour upon hour of news is catalogued and archived -- placed in a space of focused study -- the news and the experience become altogether different. What was meant to be ephemeral acquires permanence, and what is usually a short-term viewing experience becomes a rigorous, frame-by-frame examination. In this presentation I will discuss how the archive challenges researchers to adopt new ways of seeing and explaining TV news.
An Overview of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt Television News Archive
The Vanderbilt Television Archive was started in 1968. Marshall Breeding gives a brief overview of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive and how it carries out its mission to preserve and provide access to US national television news.
Media Ecology and Online News Archives
Mark J. Williams, Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College
Online TV news archives are a crucial digital resource to facilitate the awareness of and critical study of Media Ecology. Two significant research and teaching outcomes for this area of study are A) to better understand the role of television news regarding the mediation of society and its popular memory, and B) to underscore the significance of television news to the goal of an informed citizenry. The 9/11 TV News Archive will enhance and ensure the continued study of the indelible tragic events and aftermath of 9/11, and make possible new interventions within journalism history and media history, via online capacities for access and collaboration.
Documentation and Access: A Latino/a Studies Perspective on Using Video Archives
Carolyn Brown, American University
This talk explores the possibilities and potential of using accessible
video news archives in two areas: immigration research in the field of
communication and documentary journalism. Prof. Brown speaks of the
significance of video news archives in her current film, The Salinas
Project, and discusses her continuing research on Latino/as and
immigration in the news.
Image Analysis for Media Study
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Focusing on television news coverage of the 9/11 attacks, this brief
talk outlines strategies for automatic quantitative analysis of
television news imagery.
Live Dispatch: The Ethics of Audio Vision Media Coverage in Trauma
and the Legacy of Sound from Shell Shock to 9/11
Beatrice Choi, New York University
What experiential narratives-sensory, aesthetic and political-are
invisible to those exposed to traumatic events? Considering September
11, 2001, the media coverage of the event is predominantly visual.
People drift in and out of news footage, covered in dust and ash as
they exclaim that witnessing the attacks was like watching a movie. In
contrast, the wailing of sirens, the staccato thud of feet running
from the stricken towers, and the chaotic overlap of voices break
through-sometimes even swallow-the visual narratives spun for 9/11.
For contemporary American traumatic events, this inquires into how
porous the sensory modalities are in experiencing and remembering
shock. How, after all, do sensory representations of traumatic events
leave in/visible marks on documentation? Ms. Choi addresses these
questions by exploring sound as an alternate modality, evoking a
different level of traumatic indexicality.
9/11 Flipbook and Quantitative Media Study
Scott Blake, artist
Scott Blake has created a flipbook consisting of images of United
Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade
Center. Accompanying the images are essays written by a wide range of
participants, each expressing their personal experience of the
September 11th attacks. In addition, the authors of the essays were
asked to reflect on, and respond to, the flipbook itself. Not
surprisingly, the majority of the essayists experienced the events
through news network footage. Blake is distributing his 9/11 Flipbooks
to encourage a constructive dialog regarding the media's participation
in sensationalizing the tragedy. To further illustrate his point,
Blake conducted a media study using the 9/11 TV News Archive to count
the number of times major news networks showed the plane crashes,
building collapses and people falling from the towers on September 11,
2001.
Presentation of Fox5-NY 9/11 News Coverage & Remarks
Dennis Swanson, President of Station Operations, Fox Television
Mr. Swanson was President of WNBC-TV at the time of the September 11
attacks. He recalls his personal experiences and testifies to the
historical significance of an online television news archive,
especially for younger people whose memories of the attacks may be
hazy or nonexistent.
Watch a video summary of key events.
Co-sponsored by Internet Archive and New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, Tisch School of the Arts.
Related Resources
●Browse over 600 archived 9/11-related websites curated by the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center, on archive-it.org
●Books about the September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 on openlibrary.org
Summary Video of Key Events on 9/11/2001
History of The Collection
http://televisionarchive.org
Launched October 11, 2001 at the First Amendment Center in Washington D.C.
archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive
Launched June 2007
archive.org/911
Launched August 24, 2011
| Credits: | |
| Rick Prelinger | Internet Archive |
| George Oates | Internet Archive |
| Tracey Jaquith | Internet Archive |
| Alexis Rossi | Internet Archive |
| Jeff Kaplan | Internet Archive |
| Brewster Kahle | Internet Archive |
| Sam Stoller | Internet Archive |
| Ralf Muehlen | Internet Archive |
| David Rinehart | Internet Archive |
| June Goldsmith | Internet Archive |
| Rod Hewitt | Telivision Archive |
| Howard Besser | New York University |
| Patty Haubner | |
| The Associated Press |
The Understanding 9/11 TV News Collection is just one of thousands of items in the
Internet Archive Moving Images collection of free movies, films, and videos ranging from
classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and more.
Your use of this collection is subject to the Internet Archive Terms of Use (10 Mar 2001).
Watch a video summary of key events.
