Hard Numbers

Weird science

95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989

34 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2005

19 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2012

163,734 URLs requested to be removed from Google search for copyright infringements, week of 11/21/11

2,809,963 URLs requested to be removed from Google search for copyright infringements, week of 11/19/12

0 Discover staff members who will be moving with the magazine to its new Wisconsin home

54 days George Entwistle served as director general of the BBC

£450,000 Entwistle’s compensation for those 54 days

Sources: Shorenstein Center, E&P Databook, Google, Discover, BBC

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Sara Morrison is a former assistant editor at CJR. Follow her on Twitter @saramorrison.