About

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Email | Resume (PDF/HTML) | Clips I'm a graduate student and former journalist who's working to understand our new journalistic ecosystem as thoroughly as I can — not only the technical skills of engaging in it, but also the deeper concepts of what type of society it's helping to create. I'm currently working toward a master's degree in the research and theory program at the University of Texas School of Journalism, where I'm studying hyperlinks, aggregation, Twitter, and WikiLeaks. I also write weekly media reviews for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, where I've been a contributor since January 2010. For four years, I wrote about government, education, crime, business, people, energy and just about every other aspect of news while covering 16 rural Nebraska counties for The Grand Island Independent, a small daily newspaper — a job that also included taking photos and beatblogging. I've copy edited both at The Buffalo News as a Dow Jones copy editing intern and for three years at The Wheaton Record, the student newspaper at my alma mater, Wheaton College. Outside of work, I've blogged on a more personal level for six years and began recording podcasts in spring 2009. I'm particularly interested in changes in our media environment as they affect the spheres of sports and religion, and I co-authored with three friends Putting God in His Place, a book published in February 2011 on the subtly damaging effects 21st-century American culture is having on evangelical churches. I hope through this site to engage in the conversation surrounding the sea changes going on within media and the news ecosystem, and to provide a resource for others wanting to enter into the discussion as well. The future of journalism is not a zero-sum game: The more we all know about where it's headed, the better off we all are. So join in, please, via comments, Twitter or email. You can find me on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, email me at markcoddington (at) gmail (dot) com, or contact me here. If you're curious, here are links to some of my work, and my resume in HTML or PDF. — Mark Coddington