RTD looks back at attempted ouster of UVA president. Meanwhile, website of local weekly that won state's top journalism award covering it vanishes.
The RTD took a look back at the attempted ouster of UVA President Teresa Sullivan 10 years ago, which, until Nazis held a tiki torch march on the Lawn, was perhaps UVA's worst publicity nightmare. There's a lot left out, as it’s a summary in search of a simple conclusion. In fact, my colleagues and I at The Hook received the state’s top journalism award for our coverage of the attempted ouster just months before our publishers chose to shut the weekly down. Unfortunately, it appears those same publishers, who currently publish C-Ville Weekly, have allowed The Hook’s website to be removed. Asked why the website, which has been available as a searchable archive since 2013, was shut down over a month ago, C-Ville Weekly declined to comment.
According to Waldo Jaquith on @cvillenewscom, "The Internet Archive’s last capture of The Hook’s website on the Wayback Machine was on June 8. The domain name changed hands on January 22, and its owner is anonymous."
Here’s hoping that invaluable archi…
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