Mark Coddington

This week’s media/journalism/tech/future review (just wanted to see how many descriptive words I could cram in there) is up at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
For your education and enjoyment, we have:
— The discussion about the The New York Times, plagiarism and what linking more consistently could do about it.
— Some items in advance of this week’s [...]

[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 [...]

Consider this your dictionary for the common phrases in the future-of-journalism world that function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas.

Rupert Murdoch is operating as if the web is still his own little media playground, ruled by scarcity. Instead, it’s ruled by abundance, and that causes the value of any one online publication to tank, even if they’re as large as Murdoch’s.