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Online magazine Salon, an early staple of internet discourse, announces it will shut down

KCRA3 Sacramento (Hearst) and Oregonian describe the same event in different terms.

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What happened Online magazine Salon, an early staple of internet discourse, announces it will shut down.
The headline split KCRA3 Sacramento (Hearst) frames it as "Online magazine Salon, an early staple of internet discourse, announces it will shut down". Oregonian frames it as "Salon, a pioneer of online journalism, shuts down after 31 years".
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KCRA3 Sacramento (Hearst)News report · Nov 6, 2:49 AM

Online magazine Salon, an early staple of internet discourse, announces it will shut down

Salon, one of the early internet's most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut do...

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OregonianNews report · Nov 6, 3:09 AM

Salon, a pioneer of online journalism, shuts down after 31 years

Salon, one of the internet's earliest and most influential digital magazines, has shut down after 31 years.

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Nov 6, 2:49 AM: KCRA3 Sacramento (Hearst) joined the source map.

Nov 6, 3:09 AM: Oregonian joined the source map.

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