10-year-old archive of city history disappears 

WVTF - For more than a decade, a weekly publication called The Hook covered Charlottesville with flair, winning awards for in-depth reporting on controversies like the firing of former UVA President Teresa Sullivan.

“We won the Virginia Press Association’s highest award for our reporting on that," says Lisa Provence, former news editor of the paper which was sued unsuccessfully a number of times. Until recently her stories could be found online in The Hook’s archive.

“I got an e-mail from my former colleague Dave McNair," she recalls. "He said, ‘I had long wondered when this day would happen,” and it was a link to the Hook website, and you click on it, and there is nothing.” Read/Listen.