Mark Coddington

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 5, 2010.]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few incremental happenings that proved to be interesting, and several of [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 15, 2010.]
Who reports local news?: Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study Monday that aimed to find out “who really reports the news that most people get about their communities?” In studying the Baltimore news media ecosystem for a week, the study [...]

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

There was quite a bit of compelling stuff said this week in the new-media-and-journalism department, but unlike the last few weeks, there’s no one or two issues that much of the discussion has orbited around. So rather than doing my usual mini-essay on the top item or two, I’m going to have some shorter comments [...]

As Jay Rosen surmised after my last Media Musings, this review is largely curated from Twitter, with some RSS thrown in there to catch anything I might have missed. But because I’ve been out on the road and mostly off the grid for the last week, I decided to catch up via RSS, rather than [...]

(A little about what I’m doing is here.)
— Clay Shirky talked about journalism this past week, and when he talks about journalism, people listen. Shirky, an NYU prof, has been regarded for years as one of new media’s most respected thinkers. But after his March essay “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” went viral and reached [...]

Lots of good stuff to get to this week. And I’m getting closer to being on time. (Explanation is here.)
— Mark Bowden of The Atlantic takes a case study of the discovery and development of Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” and “make policy” videos to use as a launching point into a diatribe against advocacy journalists [...]

What an inauspicious beginning: After a jam-packed Labor Day weekend, I’m waaaay behind on my first “This week.” I’d like to post them on Sundays, covering material going back to the previous Sunday or so. This time, I’m covering stuff that’s a week and a half old. I don’t intend for that to be the [...]