Mark Coddington

Posts Tagged ‘journalism

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 7, 2010.]
Has Newsweek’s time come?: This week was a relatively quiet one until Wednesday, when The Washington Post Co. announced that it’s trying to sell Newsweek, which it’s owned since 1961. A possible sale doesn’t always signal the demise of a news organization, but [...]

For many people at the intersection of the journalism-tech-media discussion, Twitter has moved well beyond the “What I had for lunch” cliche (if it ever was that in the first place), past being a fun new technology to experiment (read: waste time) with, and into a place by itself as the essential distributed source of [...]

[This review was first posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 29, 2010.]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad— on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke under the weight of the hype for Apple’s latest product. Rather than [...]

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

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 [...]


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  • Mark: That's a fair point, Steve. I think Jack and Steph's response would be that the advertisers are still maintaining their own voice online; the paper is
  • Steve W: I'm torn by this concept. I'd really like businesses to handle their social media in house. They know their message and audience (hopefully) and I'm n
  • Juno Ogle: Hey, thanks for the link. I hope ours will turn out as successful as the giNetwork.

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This is the personal blog of Mark Coddington, former reporter and University of Texas graduate student in journalism, and home of his thoughts on all things media-related.