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Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Covering war in real time, and evaluating a pair of plagiarism cases." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Aug. 2014. Web. 18 Oct. 2024.
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Coddington, M. (2014, Aug. 1). This Week in Review: Covering war in real time, and evaluating a pair of plagiarism cases. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/08/this-week-in-review-covering-war-in-real-time-and-evaluating-a-pair-of-plagiarism-cases/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Covering war in real time, and evaluating a pair of plagiarism cases." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 1, 2014. Accessed October 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/08/this-week-in-review-covering-war-in-real-time-and-evaluating-a-pair-of-plagiarism-cases/.
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