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O'Donovan, Caroline. "Partners won’t be getting traffic from BuzzFeed anymore." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 May. 2014. Web. 10 May. 2024.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2014, May. 27). Partners won’t be getting traffic from BuzzFeed anymore. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/partners-wont-be-getting-traffic-from-buzzfeed-anymore/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Partners won’t be getting traffic from BuzzFeed anymore." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 27, 2014. Accessed May 10, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/partners-wont-be-getting-traffic-from-buzzfeed-anymore/.
Wikipedia
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