Mark Coddington

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 13, 2010.]
TBD takes off: One of the most anticipated new news organizations in journalism’s recent history launched this week in the form of TBD, a site owned by Allbritton Communications (the folks behind Politico) covering local news in Washington, D.C. As The Huffington Post’s Jack Mirkinson wrote, [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 6, 2010.]
A newbie owner for Newsweek: This week was a big one for Newsweek: After being on the block since May, it was sold to Sidney Harman, a 92-year-old audio equipment mogul who’s married to a Democratic congresswoman and owns no other media properties. The price: [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 30, 2010.]
WikiLeaks, data journalism and radical transparency: I’ll be covering two weeks in this review because of the Lab’s time off last week, but there really was only one story this week: WikiLeaks’ release of The War Logs, a set of 90,000 documents on [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 16, 2010.]
Should papers charge for obits online?: We’ve written a whole bunch about Steve Brill’s paid-online-news venture Journalism Online around these parts, and the company’s first Press+ system went live on a newspaper site this week, with Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline obits section going to a metered pay model for [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 9, 2010.]
Time’s non-pay paywall: Thanks to some collaborative online sleuthing — OK, basically just wandering around on a website and asking some simple questions — we found out that Time magazine is planning an online paywall. Reuters’ Felix Salmon ran into the wall first [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 2, 2010.]
Finding a place for a new breed of journalist: Laura touched on the resignation of Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel in last week’s review, and several of the questions she raised were ones people have been batting around in the week since then. Here’s [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 18, 2010.]
The FTC’s last round of input: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission wrapped up its series of forums on journalism and public policy Tuesday, and this forum got quite a bit more attention than the others — partly because it’s the last one, [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 11, 2010.]
The Times has the Pulse (briefly) pulled: Last week, I noted one of the more interesting iPad news apps: The Pulse Reader, designed by two Stanford grad students, is a stylish news aggregator. But on Monday, the app was pulled from the iTunes store [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 4, 2010.]
The FTC’s ideas for journalism: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has spent much of the last year listening to suggestions about how they might change antitrust, copyright and tax laws in order to create the best possible climate for good journalism, and this [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 21, 2010.]
Should Facebook be regulated?: It’s been almost a month since Facebook’s expansion of Open Graph and Instant Personalization, and the concerns about the company’s invasion of privacy continue to roll in. This week’s appalling example of how much Facebook information is public comes [...]