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Plus: 60 Minutes produces a friendly story on the NSA, the ethics of holding stories, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news. Mark Coddington
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Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Censorship in the U.K., and Al Jazeera America’s promise and problems." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 Aug. 2013. Web. 19 Oct. 2024.
APA
Coddington, M. (2013, Aug. 23). This Week in Review: Censorship in the U.K., and Al Jazeera America’s promise and problems. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 19, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/this-week-in-review-censorship-in-the-u-k-and-al-jazeera-americas-promise-and-problems/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Censorship in the U.K., and Al Jazeera America’s promise and problems." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 23, 2013. Accessed October 19, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/this-week-in-review-censorship-in-the-u-k-and-al-jazeera-americas-promise-and-problems/.
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