Mark Coddington

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Coddington teaches courses on digital journalism, media bias, social media and reporting. His research interests include media sociology, online news production, networked and participatory journalism, and social media.

Mark Coddington was a newspaper reporter in Nebraska before earning his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His scholarly monograph, Aggregating the News: Secondhand Knowledge and the Erosion of Journalistic Authority, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. His research has been published in journals including Journalism Studies, Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and the International Journal of Communication. He is the co-author of RQ1, a monthly email newsletter on the latest in news and journalism research.

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