[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]
The online news landscape defined: Much of the discussion about journalism this week revolved around two survey-based studies. I’ll give you an overview on both and the conversation that surrounded them.
The first [...]

[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the impact of social media on journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we've been highlighting a few here over the next few days. Here's our final one: a piece by journalism professor Scott R. Meier on the future [...]

This is what a profitable post-paper newsroom looks like:

And this is what it feels like: 15 hours a day, seven days a week, from the 7 a.m. check-in with your spouse-turned-business-partner to the midnight bookkeeping.
No kids, no vacations, no car. No office; your only away-from-home base is a former Main Street antique shop that sells [...]

We’ve written several posts recently about AnnArbor.com, the online replacement for the closed Ann Arbor News. It’s got an interesting and unusual presentation style — by default, stories appear on the front page in strict chronological order. The newest story pushes down all that came before it, a la Twitter or your Facebook news feed.
That’s [...]

Go figure: When we’re talking about a new media ecosystem, writers and reporters get all the press. But one in two of the country’s daily print journalists is an editor or a boss. What’s going to happen to them?
Cornelius Swart, the 37-year-old publisher of a respected neighborhood monthly in Portland, Ore., is working on an [...]

Attention Boston-area readers: I’m speaking at three upcoming journalism events you might find interesting.
— First, on July 20, I’ll be moderating a Mediabistro panel on the evolution of journalism. The panelists include Bob Buderi of Xconomy, Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting, and Bob Kempf of Boston.com. The cost is normally $30, but you can get [...]

Spot.Us, the non-profit experiment in journalism funded by readers, plans to expand beyond San Francisco by the end of summer, founder David Cohn tells me in the interview above. Seattle and Los Angeles are the most likely candidates for the site’s next iteration, and in the longer term, Spot.Us is looking to the east coast [...]

[Our series profiling winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge continues with Michael Andersen writing about Gotham Gazette's grant for a local wiki called Councilpedia. —Josh]
Every newsroom’s got them: A few dozen gadflies who’ve been in town forever and are proud to have their favorite reporters on speed-dial.
The little team at New York City’s Web-only [...]

Next up in our series of videos from the Nieman Foundation’s 70th convocation is Melissa Ludtke, my colleague here at the foundation and editor of Nieman Reports. She talks about the value of editing online and recounts an exchange from a few years back she had with Jeff Jarvis.
The fall 2008 issue of Nieman [...]

The panelists at last night’s Centennial Conversation on the the Future of Journalism, hosted by The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, identified two dichotomies at the heart of online news media: “value vs. values” and “perfection vs. good enough.” Though both issues are endemic to journalism in any medium, they seem particularly important as the [...]

London Tory broadsheet The Telegraph is reversing the traditional copyflow: having reporters post their stories online, then editing them once they’re up. Assistant editor Justin Williams:
We’re experimenting with post moderation on web stories — so we have either the desk or, in an increasing number of instances, writers publishing all stories direct to the website. [...]

Siobhain Butterworth, The Guardian’s ombudsman, writes about changing the content of past newspaper stories to please readers. When a news story’s life-after-publication was limited to dusty library stacks, an embarrassing anecdote could go safely unnoticed. But when it falls within the searching power of Google, it takes on a life of its own.
Butterworth writes about [...]