I started my PJ career in 1976 so was using film for a long time before digital came about. I was working as a photo editor at The Associated Press when digital hit big time. We first used the Kodak NC2000 which had a 160 meg (yes meg, not gig) hard drive which you inserted into the camera (these were converted Nikon slrs), I was editing then so I didn't have to use those terrible things. And they were really expensive, I think the first one I saw at the AP was something like $20,000 or so. The shooters were issued b/w only mac laptops (which had those big slots to ingest the photos from the hard drives) so they would tone the photos by using the white and black setting on levels in Photoshop and then send them into us to fix in house before we transmitted them to the wire. The cameras wouldn't accept intense colors so when our guys were covering wildfires, the flames always came out as purple instead of yellow.
As time passed and the digital revolution produced better cameras and better computers, I saw film go by the wayside in an incredibly short time, I would say that pretty much all journalistic endeavors were using digital inside of 12-18 months after the Nikon D1 and the Canon equivalent became available. Bear in mind that until about five years ago, digital couldn't compare to film for quality. Now, I can't even imagine film being used except for nostalgia or special projects.
I once called a friend of mine who I started with in 1976 and said, "wouldn't you love to have the cameras of today with the access we had back then?"