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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 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

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...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

“When a GOP megadonor didn’t like the coverage he was getting from Wyoming’s newsrooms, he funded a new one. Now it’s pushing anti-trans talking points and climate misinformation.” #LocalNews #journalism

Columbia Journalism Review

Trouble in Wyoming

When a GOP megadonor didn

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: The Georgia indictments: Will Rudy Giuliani finally get his come-uppance?

The Georgia indictments: Will Rudy Giuliani finally get his come-uppance?

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to come up with something new or interesting to say about the various Trump indictments. The redoubtable...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

The epitome of the sort of issue that shouldn’t go on the ballot. None of us understood what we were voting on. We still don’t. #MaPoli “One insurer is pulling back here after Mass. voters said dental insurers must pay more to dentists. Will others follow?” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/11/business/mass-dental-insurance-ballot-question/

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: Kansas newspaper publisher's 98-year-old mother dies after police raid her home. #journalism #FirstAmendment.

Kansas newspaper publisher’s 98-year-old mother dies after police raid her home

Over the past 24 hours there have been some stunning new developments in the case of the Marion County Record, whose office was raided by police Fr...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

In a guest essay for CommonWealth Magazine, former state official Margaret Monsell argues that The Boston Globe should look in the mirror when it laments dysfunction at the Statehouse: its lack coverage, she says, is one of the causes. #mapoli https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/maybe-the-globe-should-take-a-look-at-itself/

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Oh, come on, David French. The Supreme Court is illegitimate because two of its right-wing members occupy stolen seats. Analyzing court rulings is beside the point.

Opinion | I Don’t See a ‘Rogue’ Supreme Court (Published 2023)

Behold the last federal bastion of the pre-Trump right.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Is this $267,000 RV the one that Clarence Thomas says he likes to park at Walmart?

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It (Published 2023)

The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: The Boston Globe fires back at its ex-president Vinay Mehra, claiming that his spending was out of control. #boston #journalism #media

The Globe fires back against its ex-president, claiming his spending was out of control

Boston Globe Media Partners has fired back against its former president Vinay Mehra, who sued the company in June over what he claimed was $12 mill...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

The final days of the Santa Barbara News-Press, whose wealthy owner, Wendy McCaw, ran it into the ground with her right-wing politics and unethical journalism. #LocalNews #journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/03/wendy-mccaw-santa-barbara-news-press/

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: Judy Woodruff takes on the local news crisis. #LocalNews #journalism

Judy Woodruff takes on the local news crisis

Earlier this week Judy Woodruff of the “PBS NewsHour” reported on the demise of The Canadian Record, an independently owned weekly news...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

It's not about the First Amendment! This can't be repeated often enough:

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Yes, Trump is innocent unless proven guilty. But we know what he did. It was right out in the open. The question is whether a jury will vote to convict.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

New at Media Nation: The Boston Globe announces it will seek to fill a void by hiring a media reporter. #journalism

The Boston Globe announces it will seek to fill a void by hiring a media reporter

The Boston Globe is hiring a media reporter, a position that has gone vacant for many years. It sounds like a great job, though so broad you have t...

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Garbage ads like this bring in very little money and harm a news organization’s brand and reputation. Does the NYT, profitable because its audience is willing to pay, really need to stoop so low? #journalism

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Zuck has to be over the moon that Musk is suing him because of #Threads. A marketing dream come true.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

They say you only get one chance to make a good first impression. If that's true, then Mark Zuckerberg missed that chance with the debut of #Threads. There's no browser access. You can't switch to a reverse-chrono non-algorithmic feed of accounts you follow. Even Musk still lets you do that. No lists. The whole thing feels very commercial in a forced-joviality, trying-too-hard way. These things can be fixed unless Zuck thinks they're features rather than bugs. For now, though … not great.

Dan Kennedy 2 years ago

Allegations? Come on, NYT. Just watch the video. “Mr. DeSantis’s team was forced to battle allegations, including from fellow Republicans, that it had shared a homophobic video on social media.”

DeSantis Campaign Continues to Struggle to Find Its Footing (Published 2023)

The Florida governor, who has yet to demonstrate himself as a campaigner on a national stage, has been plagued by a series of unforced errors and h...

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