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Quah, Nicholas. "Hot Pod: The podcast industry puts on a too-big blazer and tries to impress the old guy at the party." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Sep. 2016. Web. 9 Sep. 2024.
APA
Quah, N. (2016, Sep. 8). Hot Pod: The podcast industry puts on a too-big blazer and tries to impress the old guy at the party. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 9, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/09/hot-pod-the-podcast-industry-puts-on-a-too-big-blazer-and-tries-to-impress-the-old-guy-at-the-party/
Chicago
Quah, Nicholas. "Hot Pod: The podcast industry puts on a too-big blazer and tries to impress the old guy at the party." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 8, 2016. Accessed September 9, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/09/hot-pod-the-podcast-industry-puts-on-a-too-big-blazer-and-tries-to-impress-the-old-guy-at-the-party/.
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