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The first web browser to display text and graphics.
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The Guardian began publishing online through its section OnLine.
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In the United Kingdom, the Daily Telegraph launches the Electronic Telegraph.
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The Washington Post [www.washingtonpost.com] and the New York Times [www.nytimes.com] launch their official websites.
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The Wall Street Journal introduced paywalls to their users. This required for readers to pay for a subscription to receive content.
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In 1999, blogging services first appeared. It allowed people to publish content without the need to know HTML coding. People turned to blogs to find information about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and about the survivors. This was due to the fact that news publications were overwhelmed with demand.
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The rise of online journalism and websites making it easier for users to self publish content.
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Facebook was launched.
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YouTube was created and launched.
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The Huffington Post (Now the HuffPost) was launched as a "news, opinion, blogging website".
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A general interest in Podcasts was formed. In 2014, the podcast Serial became the fastest to reach 5 million downloads.
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Buzzfeed was founded, described as a news and entertainment media website.
[www.buzzfeed.com] Twitter was created and launched in the same year.
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The Telegraph and the Financial Times started integrating their newsrooms with journalists creating content for both platforms.
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By the late 2000's most companies had combined their print media and digital journalism departments. The New York Times moved their print and digital media reporters to the same building only in 2007
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The Wikileaks is considered a "watershed" moment for the rise in data journalism.
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Online news consumption surpasses traditional media for the first time in the U.S.
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The New York Times launched a metered paywall that allowed a certain number of free articles to be viewed per month. Here is a link to their subscription page. [https://www.nytimes.com/subscription]
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Not the first one to do so, the BBC got rid of 415 of their staff but created 195 new jobs to produce "news for the digital age"
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Facebook launched Instant Articles, a mobile-optimized format to publish content. Apple joins Facebook and releases Apple News, a mobile app and news aggregator.
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Twitter launches live video streaming app Periscope and Facebook follows with Facebook Live.
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The estimated number of circulation for U.S daily newspapers, weekly, for this year was 28,554,137. The estimated number was about 62,328,000 in 1990.
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For 2018 it was reported that there were only about 37,900 newsroom employees in total in the newspaper sector. In 2004 it was about 71,640, a noticeable drop in the latest report.
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