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Over the past few weeks , BuzzFeed News shuttered its doors and Vice made deep cuts to its news product. They followed the collapse of other digital news brands like Gawker, which fell apart for a second time.

All these platforms were highly representative of the digital media era of the 2010s, which has come to what looks like a screeching halt. In toda…

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