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This Week in Review

Every Friday between 2011 and 2014, Mark Coddington summed up the week’s top stories about the future of news.

Plus: Heartbleed exposes the Internet’s vulnerability, the alleged decline of the mobile web, and the rest of the week’s must-reads in journalism and tech.
Plus: The Times’ NYT Now app debuts, apps vs. the mobile web, and the rest of this week’s news in journalism and tech.
Plus: Facebook’s bet on virtual reality, Netflix and AT&T’s net neutrality debate, and the rest of this week’s news in journalism and tech.
Plus: Debating Twitter’s publicness and the ethics of quoting tweets, robot journalists, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and the web.
Plus: Edward Snowden calls for greater security online, Tim Berners-Lee calls for a web Bill of Rights, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
Plus: The Boston Globe’s reworks its paywall, Time and Newsweek in transition, and the rest of the week’s future-of-journalism news.
Plus: Piers Morgan hits the exits, options to break up the NSA, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and tech.
Plus: NSA surveillance of WikiLeaks, a new net neutrality proposal, LinkedIn’s expanded platform, and the rest of the week’s news about the news.
Plus: Facebook and viral traffic, Bill Keller leaves the Times for a startup, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and tech.
Plus: Ezra Klein and the personal-franchise model of news, Al Jazeera journalists charged in Egypt, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
Plus: An NSA deal is struck, a CNN/Twitter partnership, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
Plus: New restrictions for NSA surveillance, layoffs interrupt a bold newspaper plan, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
Plus: Lessons from the outrage over the Kellers’ columns about tweeting and cancer, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and tech.
Plus: Updates on Ezra Klein, Edward Snowden, and the rest of this week’s news in journalism and tech.
Plus: Making sense of the flood of NSA revelations, Facebook’s greatly exaggerated demise, and the rest of the holidays’ must-read journalism and tech news.