Mark Coddington

This week’s media/journalism/tech/future review (just wanted to see how many descriptive words I could cram in there) is up at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
For your education and enjoyment, we have:
— The discussion about the The New York Times, plagiarism and what linking more consistently could do about it.
— Some items in advance of this week’s [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 5, 2010.]
The online news landscape defined: Much of the discussion about journalism this week revolved around two survey-based studies. I’ll give you an overview on both and the conversation that surrounded them.
The first was a behemoth of a study by the Pew Research [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 26, 2010.]
A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection of journalism and new media this week, and for whatever reason, a lot of it had something to do with The New York Times. We’ll start with the most [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 19, 2010.]
Building news apps for the iPad: The buzz from the tech crowd about Apple’s iPad has died down, but the iPad is beginning to get more interesting for the journalism world. That’s because we’re starting to see news organizations unveil their iPad [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 12, 2010.]
Google Buzzes social media: For the second week in a row, the biggest story at the intersection of journalism and new media is an innovation by Google: This week, the talk was about Google Buzz, a real-time program for sharing status updates, links and [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 5, 2010.]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few incremental happenings that proved to be interesting, and several of [...]

[This review was first posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 29, 2010.]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad— on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke under the weight of the hype for Apple’s latest product. Rather than [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 22, 2010.]
The Times’ paywall proposal: No question about media and journalism’s biggest story this week: The New York Times announced it plans to begin charging readers for access to its website in 2011. Here’s how it’ll work: you can view an as-yet-unidentified number of [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 15, 2010.]
Who reports local news?: Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study Monday that aimed to find out “who really reports the news that most people get about their communities?” In studying the Baltimore news media ecosystem for a week, the study [...]

To me, it seems more helpful to think of all of these media sea changes as something the tablet could do, not something it will do. I read Mark Potts’ medium-by-medium list of the effects of iSlate as a sort of call to action for people in those media to do some serious thinking, planning and developing to be on the front end of that revolution if it comes. This could be traditional media’s second chance to be more proactive in finding ways to (gasp!) use technology to its advantage, after its first chance with the Internet was largely squandered.