When Trevor von Stein first heard the story of a woman named Marion Stokes who spent decades recording television news, tape-by-tape, in her home, something resonated with him. “I just sort of tingled ...

When Marion Stokes passed away in 2012, she left behind a family and personal legacy. She also left 40,000 VHS and Betamax tapes in her Philadelphia home, filled with local and national news shows she ...

What motivated Marion Stokes to create the Marion Stokes Archive starting in 1979? Imagine a home stacked with thousands of VHS tapes, each one capturing hours of television broadcasts. This was the ...

Three and a half decades of television newscasts will find a new home on the Internet Archive, thanks to one woman’s lifelong work of recording the news around-the-clock. Fast Company reported on the ...

Many of the TV shows that were broadcast in the past have had their master tapes lost due to the reuse of tapes under limited budgets, making it difficult to archive them. British journalist James ...