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Financial Times: The Sun and the Mirror once offered the best puns and photo mock-ups, but such content is now readily available on social media. “The Internet is very tabloid-y. Facebook is effectively a tabloid — short, attention-grabbing pieces of information.” The implication is that Fleet Street’s large newsrooms may be unsustainable. The Times had 454 editorial staff at last count, the Sun 525. “There won’t be anywhere like as many 500-person newsrooms in five years’ time.”