The Andhra Pradesh Press Academy intends to revive its website and upload about 16 lakh pages of old newspapers and periodicals that have already been digitised.
Academy chairman Devulapalli Amar said at a press conference in Vijaywada that the academy had secured these old newspapers and periodicals dating back to last 100 years from reputed libraries in Vetapalem and Rajahmundry besides the State Archives.
The digitised pages, mainly of non-dailies, were already stored in compact discs, but the arduous task of indexing these pages was yet to be taken up.
The Press Academy chairman said digitisation of old dailies would be taken up now following Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's assurance to the academy to fund the programme.
Mr. Amar said the Academy had taken up the task of compiling history of reputed newspapers.
Mr. Amar presided over a media workshop on the module prepared by the academy for journalists on the Right to Information Act. Journalists from various news organisations attended the workshop and expressed their views on the usefulness of the Act to them.
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