Keep the news alive

Who says newspapers are dead?

Naples-based NewsBank lives up to its name: It has built a bank of 2 billion newspaper articles since it began operations 41 years ago as a small microfiche distributor. “We've digitized newspapers going back to the 1600s,” says Dan Jones, the founder and president of NewsBank.

This treasure trove of news is hugely valuable to historians, genealogists and other researchers because it's been digitized. That means the content is searchable online via computer, producing results to queries that might have taken days or longer in the old days.