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O'Donovan, Caroline. "Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2025.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2013, Apr. 2). Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 20, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/dan-gillmor-says-journalists-are-uninformed-about-who-controls-the-platforms-they-publish-on/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 2, 2013. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/dan-gillmor-says-journalists-are-uninformed-about-who-controls-the-platforms-they-publish-on/.
Wikipedia
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