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Mobile technology has become ubiquitous over the last fifteen years, which has changed the culture of newsrooms and the business of news media. Newspapers suffered greatest under the online shift, but local radio and television experienced their own shocks. Newspapers have adapted by installing paywalls and graduated content policies, and expanding into multimedia entities regardless of platform.
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Rackaway, C. (2023). Disrupting Journalism. In: Communicating Politics Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24056-0_2
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