These are the old rules on voats /v/news:
Must Be Recent: News should not be older than 30 days at the time of submission. If the article is directly relevant to today, it will be allowed.
Submission Titles: User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion. State only the facts, not opinions or speculation. Do not use ALL-CAPS. If a submission is removed and rule two is cited, re-title the article and post it again.
No Image Posts: Submissions must be articles or videos that depict news.
No Social Media Links: Personal Blog Posts, Wiki Entries, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This includes links to Reddit. Please use /v/meanwhileonreddit.
No Paywalls: The link must be easily accessible, without signing up or spending money. Please use an archive for known paywall sites or include one in the comments section.
No URL Shorteners or Redirects: Link directly to the article. Archive links are allowed.
Please translate non-English articles: Use Google Translate in the link or post the translation in the comments.
Please Be Civil: Arguing is fine as we all have differing opinions, but please respect each other.
Feel free to give input, I will give my own in the comments as well.
I think that historical news articles if they are interesting and factual should be allowed. I don't think they would take away or obscure real news stories as those would naturally become hot topics. One could always create a historical news sub, but imho it would be fine by me if there were really good news articles or archives of interesting or informative news in this sub.