Former journalist here. Journalists do this all the time. Back in the print days, we'd keep clips -- literally cut-outs of our articles -- and use them when j

Former journalist here. Journalists do this all the time. Back in the print days, we'd keep clips -- literally cut-outs of our articles -- and use them when job-hunting to demonstrate our past work. I've got a stack of clips in a filing cabinet right now. In the digital era, many journalists keep saved versions of their online articles for the same reason. Video journalists often maintain reels for an analogous purpose. But the big distinction is whether they're kept for personal use or merely republished, in violation of the publisher's copyright. It's OK, for instance, to share some clips with a potential employer so they can evaluate your work. It's not OK to create an mtv-news-unauthorized.com archive site and just republish everything there.