Ogden Newspapers silent as decades of Sandusky history vanish from YouTube
Switching up email servers at the Register results in lost connection
SANDUSKY — Decades of Sandusky’s digital history—the raw, unedited footage of the city’s triumphs, tragedies, and political firestorms—has vanished.
As of Tuesday, the Sandusky Register’s YouTube page remained gone. Even the corporate homepage for Ogden Newspapers, the Register’s parent company, appeared to be disabled.
For a billion-dollar corporation, the loss of its YouTube channel appears to be the result of a cost-cutting effort that likely did not result in much of a savings at all, especially contrasted to the community’s loss of its archived history. The silence from the corporate office is deafening. Ogden Newspapers owns more than 60 newspapers across the country, including 13 in Ohio, yet the chain has offered no explanation for the outage or any reassurance that the data is recoverable.
