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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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    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.
    July 11, 2014
    This Week in Review: Facebook and online control, and educating stronger data journalists
    Plus: Google and censorship, The Wall Street Journal turns 125, and the rest of this week’s news about journalism and tech.
    July 3, 2014
    This Week in Review: Questions on Facebook’s experiment, and a knockout blow to Aereo
    Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight.
    June 13, 2014
    This Week in Review: Time Inc. tries to survive on its own, and the global shift to mobile news
    Plus: The Orange County Register’s decline, Vox and explainers, and the rest of the week’s news and commentary on journalism and the web.
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