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“You can’t finish a news feed, but you can finish Zetland, and that is just very nice, you know: ‘OK, that was the lesson for today, now I’m off out in the sun, talking to a friend.'”
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“We’re definitely not a short-form news outlet. When we launched, we thought it would be late evening media, something where you would crash on the sofa and read our stories.”
Lichterman, Joseph. "Start your meetings with a folk song — and other ideas from the community-driven, crowdfunded Danish news site Zetland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Jul. 2017. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Lichterman, J. (2017, Jul. 25). Start your meetings with a folk song — and other ideas from the community-driven, crowdfunded Danish news site Zetland. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/start-your-meetings-with-a-folk-song-and-other-ideas-from-the-community-driven-crowdfunded-danish-news-site-zetland/
Chicago
Lichterman, Joseph. "Start your meetings with a folk song — and other ideas from the community-driven, crowdfunded Danish news site Zetland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 25, 2017. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/start-your-meetings-with-a-folk-song-and-other-ideas-from-the-community-driven-crowdfunded-danish-news-site-zetland/.
Wikipedia
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