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Hook newspaper archive restored...again.

Someone tried to kill it. We're trying to preserve it

David McNair
Jan 04, 2026
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As you might recall, an attempt to find out what happened to The Hook newspaper’s online archives was featured in a 2022 Washington Post story, “A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?.” After that story ran, an anonymous benefactor restored the website, but eventually that disappeared as well, along with the anonymous benefactor. Links to Hook stories have always existed on the Internet Archive, though they aren’t searchable and don’t appear in web searches, and so I took the time over the last few months to create a website that links to those archives at hooknewsarhive.com.

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