Mark Coddington

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 6, 2010.]
A newbie owner for Newsweek: This week was a big one for Newsweek: After being on the block since May, it was sold to Sidney Harman, a 92-year-old audio equipment mogul who’s married to a Democratic congresswoman and owns no other media properties. The price: [...]

[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 May 28, 2010.]
Facebook simplifies privacy control: After about a month of loud, sustained criticism, Facebook bowed to public pressure and instituted some changes Wednesday to users’ privacy settings. The default status of most of the data on Facebook — that is, public —hasn’t changed, but the [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 14, 2010.]
Google’s attempt to save the news: There weren’t a whole lot of newsy events around journalism to report this week, so we’ll start off with the most significant think piece: James Fallows’ opus in The Atlantic on Google’s efforts to come to the [...]

[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 [...]

[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 23, 2010.]
Facebook tries to connect the web: Most of the talk on journalism and the web this week was about two tech giants making moves that, for the most part, aren’t making users and commentators happy. The first one I’ll run down is Facebook [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 19, 2010.]
A raft of ideas at SXSW: The center of the journalism-and-tech world this week has been Austin, Texas, site of the annual conference South by Southwest. The part we’re most concerned about — SXSW Interactive — ran from last Friday to Monday. The [...]

[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 [...]