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Dan Kennedy

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I'm a journalist and academic specializing in the future of local news. My next book, co-authored with Ellen Clegg, will be called "What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate." It will be published by Beacon Press in early 2024. Follow our updates at our website and podcast as well as my blog, Media Nation, both in the links below. Email me at dan-dot-kennedy-at-northeastern-dot-edu. #journalism #LocalNews #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #boston

Dan Kennedy 3 months ago

New at Media Nation: A Murdoch family deal keeps Fox News on the right-wing path. Let's hope they leave The Wall Street Journal alone.

Media Nation

A Murdoch family deal keeps Fox News on the right-wing path. Let’s hope they leave the WSJ alone.

Until this week, I had been cautiously optimistic about the future of the Murdoch media empire. That optimism was based on two accounts that were p...

Dan Kennedy 4 months ago

My friend Callie Crossley of GBH News is being inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Don Seiffert of the Boston Business Journal about working with her on "Beat the Press with Emily Rooney." Congratulations, Callie! https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2025/08/07/gbhs-callie-crossley-named-to-hall-of-fame-by-bla.html

Dan Kennedy 9 months ago

On the latest "What Works" podcast, Marta Hill explains what j-schools can do to address harassment directed at student journalists.

What Works

Marta Hill explains what j-schools can do to address harassment directed at student journalists

On the latest “What Works” podcast, Dan talks with Marta Hill, an extraordinary young journalist who he got to know during her time at ...

Dan Kennedy 10 months ago

New at Media Nation: Another Mass. judge orders a magazine to turn over its reporting materials. Plus, Apple and Microsoft join Google in caving on the "Gulf of America," BuzzFeed may unveil a Twitter alternative and Zuckerberg returns to his hot-or-not roots.

Media Nation

Another Mass. judge orders a magazine to turn over its reporting materials; plus, media notes

One step forward, one step back. Less than two weeks after state Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone reversed herself and ruled that Boston magazi...

Dan Kennedy 1 year ago

Apple News Plus: Promising, or just another example of promises, promises? New at Media Nation. #journalism

Media Nation

Apple News Plus: Promising, or just another example of promises, promises?

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when news organizations were all-in on social media as a way to distribute their journalism. But that ...

Dan Kennedy 1 year ago

New at Media Nation: A chain of radio stations is launching online newspapers in 18 (or more?) markets. #journalism #LocalNews

Media Nation

A chain of radio stations is launching online newspapers in 18 (or more?) markets

This one comes in via former WBZ Radio (AM 1030) news director Peter Casey, who’s now a communications consultant and part of the team at the...

Dan Kennedy 1 year ago

You'll see that our free, all-day conference at Northeastern, "What Works: The Future of Local News," is "sold out." Please register anyway. People will be coming in and out all day, and anyone who adds their name to the waitlist should have no problem getting in. It's this Friday, March 15. #journalism #LocalNews

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What Works: The Future of Local News

Learn about groundbreaking initiatives in the future of local news! Hosted by veteran journalists Dan Kennedy and Ellen Clegg.

Dan Kennedy 1 year ago

The infighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small: far-right talk-show host, Jeff Kuhner, embroiled in a feud with Howie Carr, calls for a boycott of the Boston Herald (via Contrarian Boston). #mapoli

Boston Broadside Notes Between Printed Issues - Subscribe to the Printed Newspaper - There is no paper like the broadside!

BOSTON HERALD BOYCOTT – THE STATE COMMITTEE RACES EXPOSE CARR

NOTES BETWEEN PRINTED EDITIONS by Lonnie Brennan Following two newspaper "hit pieces" in the Boston Herald this past week against WRKO Conservative...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Why are our local media united in referring to the #MaPoli tax cuts as "tax relief"? It's an unnecessary package, mainly skewed toward the rich, that will offset the ballot question we just passed to try to meet some real needs in schools, transportation and social services.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

The gold bullion really adds a nice old-school touch to the Menendez scandal.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: How Rupert Murdoch saved the Boston Herald — not just once, but twice. An excerpt from "The Return of the Moguls."

Media Nation

How Rupert Murdoch saved the Boston Herald — not just once, but twice

As I noted Thursday, one of the few positive contributions Rupert Murdoch can take credit for is preserving The Wall Street Journal as a great nati...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: The New York Times' sports section is dead. Long live The New York Times' sports section. #journalism https://dankennedy.net/2023/09/20/the-ny-times-sports-section-is-dead-long-live-the-ny-times-sports-section/

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: Questions and concerns about Press Forward’s plan to raise $500 million for local news. #LocalNews #journalism https://dankennedy.net/2023/09/15/questions-and-concerns-about-press-forwards-plan-to-raise-500-million-for-local-news/

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

I can't imagine a better choice to run CNN than former NYT president Mark Thompson. Obviously not a diverse choice, and he's not young, but he can surround himself with good people to offset that, at least to a degree. And his news and business judgment are superb. #journalism https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/media/cnn-ceo-mark-thompson/index.html

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Congratulations to @npub1vs7z...a6g3 and The Boston Globe, local winners of ONA’s Online Journalism Awards. #journalism

Online Journalism Awards

ONA announces winners in the 2023 Online Journalism Awards - Online Journalism Awards

The Online News Association (ONA) is thrilled to celebrate the winners in the 2023 Online Journalism Awards, the only comprehensive set of journali...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Splendid @npub1muxu...xcur column on media failures in the face of Republican authoritarianism. I don't think things are quite that bad — Kathleen Parker, Peter Baker and Fox News are easy pickings. But read it:

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Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America

Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

I've heard a lot of people say we should be better than to mock Trump's weight. Here's the thing: What we're mocking is that he lies about everything, the important and the unimportant, the public and the private. He is incapable of speaking the truth. That's what we're mocking.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Paging Ringo Starr.

Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives (Published 2023)

The heat, a new study suggests, makes for an ideal breeding ground for these eight-legged animals.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Not quite sure what @npub1074u...w3ga is arguing for. Twitter has had public lists you can subscribe to for years. They’re not algorithmic, but that’s OK. She praises Bluesky’s feeds, but you need an engineering degree to write one. I do wish Mastodon had public lists.

Opinion | What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media? (Published 2023)

We have no control of what we see on social media. This needs to end.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: Greater Boston arts and local news get a boost from three new nonprofit projects. Checking in with The Review Crew (in collaboration with @npub1mxzd...hhv9), MassHorizon (founded by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism), and the Plymouth Independent, a fledgling nonprofit. #LocalNews #journalism

Media Nation

Greater Boston arts and local news get a boost from three new nonprofit projects

There’s good news about local news in Greater Boston today on three fronts. I’ll start with an attempt to revive arts reviews — at on...

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