STELTER REFLECTS ON

20 Years of TVNewser with Brian Stelter: ‘I Focused On Where the Puck Was Going’

By Ethan Alter, TV NEWSER

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: 20 years ago, a tech-savvy college student pursues a seriously extracurricular activity by launching a small-scale webpage in between classes. Noticed by only a select few at first, the one-man operation spreads across the early-aughts internet, steadily gaining more eyeballs, clicks and followers. Soon, the college kid is being wooed by some of the biggest, most boldfaced names in his industry, all of whom have a million… no, make that a billion reasons for wanting to see his start-up venture attain maximum coolness.

Think we’re talking about Facebook? Think again. On Jan. 1, 2004, TVNewser flickered to life on a computer screen in Brian Stelter’s Towson University dorm room. For the record, that’s one month before Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com at Harvard, some 400 miles northeast of Towson. It’s a Web 2.0 origin story that Aaron Sorkin might have dramatized in screenplay form—if he hadn’t done that already. FINISH READING HERE

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