Mark Coddington

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 30, 2010.]
WikiLeaks, data journalism and radical transparency: I’ll be covering two weeks in this review because of the Lab’s time off last week, but there really was only one story this week: WikiLeaks’ release of The War Logs, a set of 90,000 documents on [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 16, 2010.]
Should papers charge for obits online?: We’ve written a whole bunch about Steve Brill’s paid-online-news venture Journalism Online around these parts, and the company’s first Press+ system went live on a newspaper site this week, with Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline obits section going to a metered pay model for [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 9, 2010.]
Time’s non-pay paywall: Thanks to some collaborative online sleuthing — OK, basically just wandering around on a website and asking some simple questions — we found out that Time magazine is planning an online paywall. Reuters’ Felix Salmon ran into the wall first [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 21, 2010.]
Should Facebook be regulated?: It’s been almost a month since Facebook’s expansion of Open Graph and Instant Personalization, and the concerns about the company’s invasion of privacy continue to roll in. This week’s appalling example of how much Facebook information is public comes [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 9, 2010.]
The iPad unleashed: If you’ve been anywhere near a computer or TV this week, it’s not hard to determine what this week’s top journalism/new media story is: Apple’s iPad hit stores Saturday, with 450,000 sold as of Thursday. I’ll spare you the scores [...]

[This review was originally posted April 2, 2010, at the Nieman Journalism Lab.]
The iPad’s fanboys and skeptics: For tech geeks and future-of-journalism types everywhere, the biggest event of the week will undoubtedly come tomorrow, when Apple’s iPad goes on sale. The early reviews (Poynter’s Damon Kiesow has a compilation) have been mostly positive, but many of [...]

[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 [...]

[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 [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 22, 2010.]
The Times’ paywall proposal: No question about media and journalism’s biggest story this week: The New York Times announced it plans to begin charging readers for access to its website in 2011. Here’s how it’ll work: you can view an as-yet-unidentified number of [...]