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Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO aftermath, and New Orleans’ cuts stoke the paywall debate." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Jun. 2012. Web. 22 Jul. 2017.
APA
Coddington, M. (2012, Jun. 1). This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO aftermath, and New Orleans’ cuts stoke the paywall debate. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 22, 2017, from http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/06/this-week-in-review-facebooks-ipo-aftermath-and-new-orleans-cuts-stoke-the-paywall-debate/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO aftermath, and New Orleans’ cuts stoke the paywall debate." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 1, 2012. Accessed July 22, 2017. http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/06/this-week-in-review-facebooks-ipo-aftermath-and-new-orleans-cuts-stoke-the-paywall-debate/.
Wikipedia
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