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Advances in technology allow for newspapers to be a common news source in select places.
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Newspapers become more popular and available to people in several places.
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The undersea Transatlantic telegraph cables allow information from Europe to reach North America in a matter of minutes, rather than previous years, where it would take as along as 10 days.
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Media owners experience a significant increase in wealth with the concentration of media ownership. Media Empires dominate the market.
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America launched the first radio newscast, broadcasting the results of the recent Presidential election.
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Journalists are pressured to go deeper into stories, assuming the audience has already been notified of the story through the live news that is now available.
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Anyone with a T.V. can expect to catch the news at a certain time of day.
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Canada gets its first television channels, and this new medium fills the gap between hourly radio and next-day newspapers.
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More about emergence of Internet and online newsThe Colombus Dispatch becomes the frst newspaper to be accessible through the Internet. This is one of at least 12 Associated Press newspapers working with CompuServe dial-up service.
