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Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway
The CDNC includes content from hundreds of newspapers that have been published throughout the state, going back as far as 1846. As of this writing, there 23,449,221 pages in the CDNC archive—but the staff that managed the project was terminated.
