Mark Coddington

Of course there are going to be idiots who post stupid, irresponsible and downright wrong things during breaking news events. There always have been, and the advent of social media doesn’t change that. That just underscores the importance of filtering that firehose of real-time information and providing something that’s of real value to users.

After a pretty crazy last couple of weeks in the new-media-and-journalism world, we were probably due for a relatively slow one. There wasn’t a ton of breaking news about the news this week, but we still got plenty of good ideas to chew on. Let’s take a look at a few of them. (An explanation [...]

Every week, tens of thousands of words are written about journalism and new media — where they’re at, where they’re going, where they should be going, what that means. As I wrote in my opening post, anyone publishing their thoughts about media and news is part of a conversation that is at least robust and [...]