''Science Daily'' is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates
press release
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s and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called
churnalism
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) about science, similar to
Phys.org
Phys.org is an online science, research and technology news aggregator offering briefs from press releases and reports from news agencies (a form of journalism sometimes pejoratively called churnalism). The website also produces its own science jo ...
and
EurekAlert!
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.
The site was founded by married couple Dan and Michele Hogan in 1995; Dan Hogan formerly worked in the public affairs department of
Jackson Laboratory writing press releases.
The site makes money from selling advertisements.
[ As of 2010, the site said that it had grown "from a two-person operation to a full-fledged news business with worldwide contributors". At the time, it was run out of the Hogans' home, had no reporters, and only reprinted press releases.][ In 2012, ]Quantcast
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ranked it at 614 with 2.6 million U.S. visitors.
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News aggregators
Internet properties established in 1995
American science websites
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