Mark Coddington

I’ve spent the past week alternately shoveling through snow drifts and being stranded away from home with family by a good old-fashioned Nebraska blizzard, so I haven’t had much time to check out what’s been said about media and journalism this week. On the other hand, I’ll be in Portland visiting friends next weekend, so [...]

Every once in a while, I read an article that reminds me just how far rural Nebraska is from the world inhabited by most of the people who write about media. That was the case this week with Justin Carder’s piece on Seattle’s teeming hyperlocal news ecosystem, “Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur’s Story,” at [...]