With journalism now living forever on the Internet, publishers are fielding requests to purge stories from their archives for reasons of law, ethics, or privacy, Dan Watson writes in Columbia Journalism Review. "Across the board, editors refuse to redact a story because a source regrets something he or she said," Watson says. "But is that fair to sources? Today, a print past isn’t hidden in newspaper archives or on microfilm. Even old content is just a click away."
