[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 Times, plagiarism and the link: A few weeks ago, the resignations of two journalists from The Daily Beast and The New York Times accused of plagiarism had us talking about how [...]

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
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 [...]

With the journalism and technology landscape changing literally by the hour, I often feel that one thing missing from conversations about “the future of news” is the long view. Steve Yelvington was implicitly making this point about history when he recently wrote that
…newspapers have a track record of empirical learnings that perhaps ought to be [...]

I keep thinking about the missed opportunities of Dean Singleton’s speech earlier this week.
What if, instead of bluster and opaquely worded legal threats, Dean Singleton’s address had been a challenge to leverage the breadth and depth of the AP network and its member newsrooms to create something new and better, rather than merely a curse [...]

Jimmy Fallon’s new Conan-O’Brien-replacing late-night show debuts tonight. Will it be any good? Probably not, at least at first. (Conan wasn’t much good when he started, either.)
But this article by Nicholas Carlson gives me some hope that Fallon’s show is ready to innovate in the right directions. And it also provides a few lessons that [...]

As the dust settles on yesterday’s settlement in GateHouse Media v. The New York Times Co., I’ve spoken with a few more experts and key players in the case. (Here’s everything we’ve written so far, but if you’re new to the case, start with this post.) What follows are some unresolved questions and everyone’s best [...]

I just got off the phone with Kirk Davis, the newly promoted president and chief operating officer of GateHouse Media, who gave me his interpretation of their settlement with The New York Times Co., owner of The Boston Globe. “We believe the settlement provides GateHouse with all the essential relief on the issues that caused [...]

It’s going to take some time to think through the implications of the settlement (PDF link) announced today between the New York Times Co. and GateHouse Media, over the issue of NYT’s Boston.com site aggregating content from local sites belonging to GateHouse, but my first instinct is that it is almost unrelentingly bad. Why? [...]

Zach’s on the phone with the lawyers right now, but I wanted to add one quick point. Some people, like Dan Kennedy, had hoped for a GateHouse/NYT Co. settlement because they feared what legal precedent would be set by a court dictating what kinds of linking is okay online. And that has been avoided.
But a [...]

The settlement in the GateHouse/NYT Co. case has been posted, and this is one of those moments when it’s clear I am not a lawyer. We’re trying to get clarity from people smarter than us, and we’re discussing it over on Twitter. But here’s a preliminary reading of the settlement language:
GateHouse will implement one or [...]

For those who don’t follow our Twitter feed, our Zach Seward reports from the courthouse that the parties in GateHouse v. New York Times Co. (see our previous posts here, here, and here) have settled out of court. Details on the settlement to come as soon as we have them.
So for anyone worried about how [...]

The NYT’s Year In Ideas feature is one of the best newspaper franchises built over the past decade. I’ve known people for whom it’s the one Sunday a year they buy the Times. And I’ve seen it hanging around friends’ apartments long after its December pub date.
Which is why it’s so odd that this year’s [...]

Since last week was largely about linking and The New York Times — between Frank Rich and Times Extra — I’ll also point you toward this essay, from earlier this year, by Lokman Tsui on how newspapers use linking.

While I like seeing the NYT link out, on reflection, I wonder if the first draft is a bit of a misfire — at least from a reader perspective.
What Times Extra provides is additional context and coverage on the issues the Times is already covering. Today’s front page features aggregated links on the potential auto-industry [...]

Here’s a five-minute (well, 4:30) video introduction to Times Extra at The New York Times, which launched today and which Zach wrote about earlier today.