Aggregation, content farms and huffinization: The rise of low-pay and no-pay journalism

Journalism Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 627-637

  Bakker, Piet ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Content farms; Huffington Post; Journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014687538     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2012.667266     Document Type: Article

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