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The development of the telegraph was the next important change in how news traveled. By the 1850s, the United States had 23000 miles of telegraph wires across the country. This meant that local and national news could travel almost instantly from city to city.

Then in the 1860s, engineers built telegraph cables, or large wires, under the oceans. Newspapers could report international news very quickly. A good example of this happened  in August 1883, when a volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupted. A telegraph operator on the island sent out news of this natural disaster. Four hours later, a U.S. newspaper printed the news story about Krakatoa. This was the first time news from a different country was published the same day it happened.