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Salon, One of the Web's Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down
Salon, One of the Web's Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years
TL;DRSalon, a pioneering online news site, is shutting down after 31 years of operation.
Why it matters: Signals ongoing struggles for independent digital publishers to sustain profitable business models long-term.
"It has been an extraordinary privilege," says the subheading on Thursday's announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under the byline "Salon". It remembers that Salon "was an idea about what journalism…
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