# how to find follow up (if any) to an old BBC news article? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247 "2004-03-14T17:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247/1 "2004-03-14T17:38:03Z")
This may have no definitive answer, but I thought I’d ask it anyway. Does anyone know if there would be any way to contact a news organization (specifically the BBC) in order to find out if they did any follow up on one of their old news articles (from 2001). I’m specifically trying to find information regarding an article they wrote about an archeological find off the coast of Cuba and if any reputable news org. followed it up. I’ve searched their web site (where I saw it first) but could not find anything else. This is a link to the original article in case it helps. [link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1697038.stm) ---
**Author:** ![montag01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@montag01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montag01)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247/2 "2004-03-14T18:14:02Z")
It doesn’t seem so. You can limit searches to the BBC specifically through the Vivisimo search engine. I looked and only found the original link. I checked Lexis Nexis too, since I still have free student access and was curious. There were two citations between 2001 and now. One from the Western Daily Press dated December 8, 2001, noting the possible find; another also dated December 8 from The Independent (London) with the title “LOST CITY FOUND BENEATH CUBAN WATERS MAY BE A TRICK OF NATURE.” To quote: > [@](#): > > Martin Dean, director of one of the world’s leading marine archaeological institutions, the University of St Andrews’ Archaeological Diving Unit, said: “The world’s seas and oceans are full of underwater limestone, basalt and other natural geological formations, some of them covering many square miles, which are mistakenly interpreted as sunken cities with monotonous regularity.” I found nothing else - but then I was only searching European news sources, since you asked about the BBC. ---
**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247/3 "2004-03-14T18:37:04Z")
montag01, thanks for looking, I’m curious to find more information because I’ve read a newer article (and Im trying to remember who wrote it, maybe Reuters, but I know it was reputable) about cuban archeologists being involved. (thats one of the articles I’m trying to find). I’ve searched lexis nexis also and came up with an article from 2002 by Global News Wire which provided a certain amount of credibility to the find and also mentioned a robot probe going to be sent down, “soon.” I’ve tried to research this before with little luck, and the curiosity is getting to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247/4 "2004-03-14T19:06:59Z")
A Google search on “Paulina Zelitsky” finds plenty of related links. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-follow-up-if-any-to-an-old-bbc-news-article/234247/5 "2004-03-14T19:07:50Z")
Looking around I found this, [http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0203/27\_city-cp.html](http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0203/27_city-cp.html) I would have thought that if there were anything really interesting, it would have made bigger news more recently. Since there hasn’t I guess there is less to it than meets the eye.