Mark Coddington

Most of America’s newsrooms have been aboard the Twitter bandwagon for at least a year, though few of them have found a way to directly make money off of social media. But one small daily newspaper in Nebraska has brought in a small but steadily growing stream of revenue this summer by creating and consulting [...]

[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 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 initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 19, 2010.]
A raft of ideas at SXSW: The center of the journalism-and-tech world this week has been Austin, Texas, site of the annual conference South by Southwest. The part we’re most concerned about — SXSW Interactive — ran from last Friday to Monday. The [...]

After taking Thanksgiving week off, we’ve got two weeks to catch up on, instead of just one. And while that first week was relatively slow, this week has been a pretty eventful one, both in terms of media happenings and in important thoughts about journalism.
— Almost a month after Rupert Murdoch first said he plans [...]