Mark Coddington

For virtually every other American old-media company, this decade has been one of collapse, of downsizing, of a steady chipping away of authority. The theme of this decade in news media could easily be Yeats’ line, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

Yet for ESPN, this has been the decade of expansion, of hegemony, of steadily mounting authority.

The future of journalism and new media is fun to talk about in the abstract, but things get a little hairier when we start talking about actual projects tried out at actual news organizations, especially the small, local ones that make up the vast majority of our journalistic ecosystem. So I thought it’d be helpful [...]

After taking Thanksgiving week off, we’ve got two weeks to catch up on, instead of just one. And while that first week was relatively slow, this week has been a pretty eventful one, both in terms of media happenings and in important thoughts about journalism.
— Almost a month after Rupert Murdoch first said he plans [...]

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 [...]