Mark Coddington

Posts Tagged ‘local news

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 13, 2010.]
TBD takes off: One of the most anticipated new news organizations in journalism’s recent history launched this week in the form of TBD, a site owned by Allbritton Communications (the folks behind Politico) covering local news in Washington, D.C. As The Huffington Post’s Jack Mirkinson wrote, [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 5, 2010.]
The online news landscape defined: Much of the discussion about journalism this week revolved around two survey-based studies. I’ll give you an overview on both and the conversation that surrounded them.
The first was a behemoth of a study by the Pew Research [...]

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.