Complex sentence: It is it is a fairly new area of research in translation studies, the first research about it was conducted in the mid- 2000s but journalistic translation itself started appearing in newspapers as early as the 17th century.
Split into simpler sentences: It is it is a fairly new area of research in translation studies. The first research about it was conducted in the mid- 2000s, but translations started appearing in newspapers as early as the 17th century.