[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few [...]

[I've asked Seth Lewis, a former Miami Herald editor and smart journalism professor-in-training at the University of Texas, to join our cast of occasional commentators here at the Lab. One of his primary focuses will be looking at the changing world of journalism schools. Here's an introduction. —Josh]
Last year saw no shortage of future-of-journalism conferences. [...]

Kenneth Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia, gave a talk here at Harvard yesterday about issues of copyright, publishing contracts, and open access. He looks at these issues from the perspective of the academic world, where openness in scholarship is getting lots of momentum (including from my employer). But a lot of [...]