Mark Coddington

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 [...]

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 [...]

Of course there are going to be idiots who post stupid, irresponsible and downright wrong things during breaking news events. There always have been, and the advent of social media doesn’t change that. That just underscores the importance of filtering that firehose of real-time information and providing something that’s of real value to users.

As The New York Times’ media critic, David Carr, noted on Friday, this last week has been a rather momentous one in future-of-journalism happenings. That means I’ve got a ton to cover, so I’ll try to keep it digestible for you. (Explanation of what I’m doing, as always, is here.)
— First off, this was the [...]

As Jay Rosen surmised after my last Media Musings, this review is largely curated from Twitter, with some RSS thrown in there to catch anything I might have missed. But because I’ve been out on the road and mostly off the grid for the last week, I decided to catch up via RSS, rather than [...]

We’re a little top-heavy this week, but hang in there — you should find some interesting stuff inside. (As always, explanation is here.)
— I’m about a week and a half late by now on the Washington Post’s new social media guidelines, but it dominated discussion this week and commentary is still trickling out about it, [...]

I read a lot of small-town weekly newspapers on my beat covering rural Nebraska, and most of them could hardly be regarded as bastions of journalistic excellence. (There are exceptions, of course.) For the most part, they contain the same untouched press releases, long-winded meeting stenography and “Boy grows unusual potato” feature photos that they’ve [...]

This week, we’ve got a few new developments, a load of nifty resources and several more go-rounds in the always-festering paid content debate. Let’s get to it. (Explanation here.)
— The biggest news in new media this week was probably the launch last Monday of Google Fast Flip, which allows you to flip through articles across [...]