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Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Vox and the wonk boom, and Comcast defends its TWC merger plans." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Apr. 2014. Web. 21 Jan. 2020.
APA
Coddington, M. (2014, Apr. 11). This Week in Review: Vox and the wonk boom, and Comcast defends its TWC merger plans. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 21, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/this-week-in-review-vox-and-the-wonk-boom-and-comcast-defends-its-twc-merger-plans/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Vox and the wonk boom, and Comcast defends its TWC merger plans." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 11, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/this-week-in-review-vox-and-the-wonk-boom-and-comcast-defends-its-twc-merger-plans/.
Wikipedia
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