Mark Coddington

[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 [...]

Consider this your dictionary for the common phrases in the future-of-journalism world that function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas.

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.

The best way to keep crappy content from choking out good content? Keep creating and linking to good content. Google’s search dominance depends (at least in part) on its ability to lead users to the good stuff; makes sense to just produce quality stuff, link to it and pass it around, and let Google’s engineers do their jobs.

Big, big week last week. Let’s get into it. (As always, an explanation of what I’m doing is here.)
— There’s no doubt about the biggest journalism-related news this week: It’s the impending death of Editor & Publisher, the magazine that’s been covering the newspaper industry since 1884. E&P’s owner, Nielsen Business Media, announced on Thursday [...]

Last week, a familiar sports media storyline played itself out in Michigan. Detroit Free Press columnist Mike Rosenberg and reporter Mark Snyder wrote an investigative piece with details from a half-dozen current and former Michigan football players about practices that (most likely) violated NCAA rules.
A predictable firestorm erupted, with national media taking notice, Michigan coach [...]

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 [...]