In 2018, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting launched the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship, designed to provide students at archives and information science graduate programs with the opportunity to learn about audiovisual materials by digitizing at-risk tapes from public broadcasting institutions. The program was revived for a new round of Fellowships in 2022, but the long impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the digital preservation landscape provided additional challenges for the Fellowship model as originally designed.
