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Tameez, Hanaa'. "The New York Times is using Instagram slides and Twitter cards to make stories more digestible." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Jul. 2021. Web. 23 Jul. 2024.
APA
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Chicago
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