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    Articles by Mark Coddington

    Mark Coddington is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Washington & Lee University. He previously studied journalism and the web as a graduate student at the University of Texas. He spent about four years in newspapers, most of that as a reporter for The Grand Island Independent in Nebraska. For several years, he wrote the This Week in Review column for Nieman Lab.
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    July 17, 2023
    What women political candidates think of their local media coverage
    Plus: Newsroom sexual harassment and journalists’ job satisfaction, journalists’ skills wishlist, and paying for public media.
    October 12, 2022
    Were fears about the “infodemic” overblown?
    Plus: studies on race in the newsroom, hostility from sources, and why it’s hard to build a subscription habit.
    March 9, 2022
    “Stick to sports”? How ESPN became politicized
    Plus: On the ground with journalists in Mexico, the digital divide among investigative journalists, and how news organizations are using recommendations.
    September 26, 2019
    “Glory and honor”: How professional identity shapes the way journalists do their work
    “In an era in which trust in news is fractured and employment is precarious, we need to look more closely at the ways that journalists’ sense of their own professional value — or lack thereof — influences the work they do and the environment in which they do it.”
    June 26, 2015
    One thing we can learn from Circa: A broader way to think about structured news
    Circa’s backend placed every news event into a broader, branched network of stories — providing a structured vision of the larger narratives that other news organizations might not identify from day-to-day copy.
    August 29, 2014
    This Week in Review: The danger of freelance foreign journalism, and Facebook goes after clickbait
    Plus: Concerns about biased news and social media in Ferguson, a Pew study on what we don’t talk about online, and the rest of the news in journalism and tech.
    August 22, 2014
    This Week in Review: Twitter and press intimidation in Ferguson, and a journalist’s brutal execution
    Plus: Controversy at Time Inc., more plagiarism allegations, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
    August 15, 2014
    This Week in Review: Ferguson and press freedom, and BuzzFeed’s $50 million boost
    Plus: The Gannett spinoff and the future of newspapers, dealing with abusive comments at Gawker, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
    August 1, 2014
    This Week in Review: Covering war in real time, and evaluating a pair of plagiarism cases
    Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ latest numbers, what’s next in the Fox-Time Warner talks, and the rest of the week’s journalism and media news.
    July 18, 2014
    This Week in Review: The Fox/Time Warner dance begins, and clickbait and its discontents
    Plus: Debating SI’s LeBron James scoop, a warning for the newspaper industry, and the rest of the week’s media and journalism must-reads.
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