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Quah, Nicholas. "Who could have predicted that Podcoin, an app that promised to pay you to listen to podcasts, didn’t work out." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 24 Sep. 2019. Web. 13 Dec. 2024.
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Quah, N. (2019, Sep. 24). Who could have predicted that Podcoin, an app that promised to pay you to listen to podcasts, didn’t work out. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/who-could-have-predicted-that-podcoin-an-app-that-promised-to-pay-you-to-listen-to-podcasts-didnt-work-out/
Chicago
Quah, Nicholas. "Who could have predicted that Podcoin, an app that promised to pay you to listen to podcasts, didn’t work out." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 24, 2019. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/who-could-have-predicted-that-podcoin-an-app-that-promised-to-pay-you-to-listen-to-podcasts-didnt-work-out/.
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