8,000The number of reporters at the world’s largest news organization before September 1

2,925,249,355The number of reporters at the world’s largest news organization after September 1

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Photo: Hernán Piñera / Flickr | Figures cited based on data provided by The Guardian (BBC News headcount, 2011) and W3C (number of globally-connected citizens, 2014)