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Backfence was a network of user-driven hyperlocal news sites that launched in 2005 and closed in 2007. Backfence was founded in 2005 by Mark Potts and Susan DeFife with five staff members and two community sites in the Washington, D.C., area. It raised $3 million in local and national investment...

Ken DoctorAugust 19, 2013

The newsonomics of Patch’s unquilting

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Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of Patch’s unquilting." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Aug. 2013. Web. 4 Dec. 2023.

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Doctor, K. (2013, Aug. 19). The newsonomics of Patch’s unquilting. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 4, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/the-newsonomics-of-patchs-unquilting-2/

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