Dan Kennedy
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J-prof at Northeastern University. Author, most recently, of "What Works in Community News," with Ellen Clegg. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
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In "What Works in Community News," Ellen Clegg and I examine about a dozen independent local news outlets in nine parts of the country. We hope it will inspire folks who live in news deserts to take their information needs into their own hands. #journalism #localnews
Rusty and Gracie would like to wish all of you a Happy Boxing Day.
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Rusty and Gracie would like to wish all of you a Happy Boxing Day.
This is a story of tremendous importance. Unlike the lead-up to the Great Recession, the NYT and WSJ have been relentless in sounding the alarm over what could be a financial crash. But no one is listening. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is a story of tremendous importance. Unlike the lead-up to the Great Recession, the NYT and WSJ have been relentless in sounding the alarm over what could be a financial crash. But no one is listening. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
New at Media Nation: Founding editor @mhlevy.bsky.social has left @cambridgeday.com, the news outlet he launched in 2009. dankennedy.net/2025/12/24/f...
Founding editor Marc Levy has left Cambridge Day, the news outlet he launched in 2009
Cambridge Day’s founding editor, Marc Levy, has left the newspaper. His departure was announced in an email to Day contributors from editor-in-chief Michael Fitzgerald that was forwarded to m…
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December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New at Media Nation: Founding editor @mhlevy.bsky.social has left @cambridgeday.com, the news outlet he launched in 2009. dankennedy.net/2025/12/24/f...
This strikes me as a creative stretching of the law to get an important public transportation project completed more quickly. #mbta www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/23/m...
MBTA violated state bidding laws to complete Foxboro station improvements in time for World Cup, state AG says - The Boston Globe
Gillette Stadium will host seven World Cup games next summer, starting June 13.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This strikes me as a creative stretching of the law to get an important public transportation project completed more quickly. #mbta www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/23/m...
The continued fallout over Bari Weiss and the "60 Minutes" story shows who understands that objectivity is the fair-minded pursuit of the truth and who wrongly believes it's "balance." If you're in the second category, Walter Lippmann would like a word with you.
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The continued fallout over Bari Weiss and the "60 Minutes" story shows who understands that objectivity is the fair-minded pursuit of the truth and who wrongly believes it's "balance." If you're in the second category, Walter Lippmann would like a word with you.
I'm no fan of Gorsuch, but I thought he was somewhat better than Alito and Thomas. Not today.
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm no fan of Gorsuch, but I thought he was somewhat better than Alito and Thomas. Not today.
With newspaper advertising expected to decline in 2026, Brian Dudley of The Seattle Times says the news business needs state tax credits as well as payments from the giant tech platforms. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/a-ch...
A challenging year but signs of progress for local news in 2026 - Editor and Publisher
Kate Scott-Dawkins, who tracks ad spending for the advertising giant WPP Media, said 2026 will be rough for newspapers. In a forecast released this month, WPP expects print advertising in U.S. newspap...
www.editorandpublisher.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
With newspaper advertising expected to decline in 2026, Brian Dudley of The Seattle Times says the news business needs state tax credits as well as payments from the giant tech platforms. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/a-ch...
The Providence Journal reports on Elizabeth McNamara, a former ProJo journalist who left to take charge of a hyperlocal nonprofit called EG News in East Greenwich, R.I. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
Why this RI small-town editor sees her news site as a 'community good'
"We're going to know the story better. We're there to provide the depth that only people who live here can do," says Elizabeth McNamara of EG News.
www.providencejournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Providence Journal reports on Elizabeth McNamara, a former ProJo journalist who left to take charge of a hyperlocal nonprofit called EG News in East Greenwich, R.I. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
We have reached the let’s-hope-Canada-beams-in-news-that’s-being-censored-in-our-own-country stage of authoritarianism. Here's a broadcast-quality version of that "60 Minutes" story via Yashar Ali. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
www.thereset.news
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have reached the let’s-hope-Canada-beams-in-news-that’s-being-censored-in-our-own-country stage of authoritarianism. Here's a broadcast-quality version of that "60 Minutes" story via Yashar Ali. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
A tool to help local journalists with science reporting: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/a-na...
And here is our podcast with Matt DeRienzo, director of SciLine, which also provides resources for local journalists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
And here is our podcast with Matt DeRienzo, director of SciLine, which also provides resources for local journalists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A tool to help local journalists with science reporting: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/a-na...
And here is our podcast with Matt DeRienzo, director of SciLine, which also provides resources for local journalists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
And here is our podcast with Matt DeRienzo, director of SciLine, which also provides resources for local journalists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
On the latest @whatworks-nu.bsky.social podcast, Jennifer Peter, the new editor of The Marshall Project, tells @ellenclegg.bsky.social and me about how the nonprofit covers criminal justice — including how it is extending its work to local news. Plus our Quick Takes. whatworks.news/2025/12/23/j...
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On the latest @whatworks-nu.bsky.social podcast, Jennifer Peter, the new editor of The Marshall Project, tells @ellenclegg.bsky.social and me about how the nonprofit covers criminal justice — including how it is extending its work to local news. Plus our Quick Takes. whatworks.news/2025/12/23/j...
Local news outlets aren't just reporting on the effects of climate change in their communities. In some cases, they're being directly affected by climate change. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/1...
Troubled local news outlets face a new risk: climate change
KCHU, the public radio station in Valdez, Alaska, is used to living on the edge. For two months, its AM transmitter leaned precariously over the Valdez Glacier Stream as seasonal flooding from melting...
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Local news outlets aren't just reporting on the effects of climate change in their communities. In some cases, they're being directly affected by climate change. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/1...
I've now seen the "60 Minutes" story that Bari Weiss killed. I think the link has already stopped working. As for her complaint that the reporters failed to get comment:
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I've now seen the "60 Minutes" story that Bari Weiss killed. I think the link has already stopped working. As for her complaint that the reporters failed to get comment:
There's a political expert who has been a quote machine for years, and we were barred from quoting him at the Boston Phoenix for a little while. Really nice guy, so I'm not going to name him. But we should always be looking to expand our sources.
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
There's a political expert who has been a quote machine for years, and we were barred from quoting him at the Boston Phoenix for a little while. Really nice guy, so I'm not going to name him. But we should always be looking to expand our sources.
I'm old enough to remember when George Allen's 2006 Senate re-election campaign couldn't survive his calling an Indian American oppo researcher "macaca." drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/dont-apolo...
"Don’t Apologize for Being White." America's Hillbilly Vice President Gave Racism Its Green Light
This Substack is reader-supported.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm old enough to remember when George Allen's 2006 Senate re-election campaign couldn't survive his calling an Indian American oppo researcher "macaca." drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/dont-apolo...
But of course this is how Bari Weiss' The Free Press would lead her newsletter.
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
But of course this is how Bari Weiss' The Free Press would lead her newsletter.
New at Media Nation: Two weeks after a hopeful sign from "60 Minutes," Bari Weiss cancels a story and trashes the brand. dankennedy.net/2025/12/22/t...
Two weeks after a hopeful sign from ‘60 Minutes,’ Bari Weiss cancels a story and trashes the brand
A Dec. 7 “60 Minutes” interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene by veteran correspondent Lesley Stahl raised hopes that new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and her corporate overlords, …
dankennedy.net
December 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New at Media Nation: Two weeks after a hopeful sign from "60 Minutes," Bari Weiss cancels a story and trashes the brand. dankennedy.net/2025/12/22/t...
My daughter and I use Lyft rather than Uber because it has a reputation for being a better deal for drivers. According to this, Lyft does a better (though far from perfect) job of screening drivers, and Mass. did its own screening in 2017. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My daughter and I use Lyft rather than Uber because it has a reputation for being a better deal for drivers. According to this, Lyft does a better (though far from perfect) job of screening drivers, and Mass. did its own screening in 2017. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
People, stop with the multi-paragraph quotes with one quotation mark at the beginning and one at the end. You put one at the beginning of each paragraph, then close it with one at the end of the final paragraph.
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
People, stop with the multi-paragraph quotes with one quotation mark at the beginning and one at the end. You put one at the beginning of each paragraph, then close it with one at the end of the final paragraph.
New at Media Nation: David Brooks tells @pbsnews.org that he didn't know Jeffrey Epstein was in the room. dankennedy.net/2025/12/20/d...
David Brooks tells the ‘PBS NewsHour’ that he didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein was in the room
The last thing I want to be doing on the Saturday morning before Christmas is writing about David Brooks’ undisclosed (by him) encounter with the notorious pedophile and sex criminal Jeffrey …
dankennedy.net
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New at Media Nation: David Brooks tells @pbsnews.org that he didn't know Jeffrey Epstein was in the room. dankennedy.net/2025/12/20/d...
News you can use (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/h...
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
News you can use (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/h...
Good news about local news: The editor of the Bulletin newspapers, which cover a number of Boston neighborhoods as well as Norwood, is purchasing the independent chain from its retiring owners. @universalhub.com has the story. www.universalhub.com/2025/editor-...
Editor of Bulletin papers buying the chain; plans Web site, but will continue free print editions
Jeff Sullivan, longtime editor of the Bulletin newspapers, which stretch from Norwood to Allston/Brighton, reports he and his wife Gracia are buying the chain from Paul DiModica and Dennis Cawley, who...
www.universalhub.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Good news about local news: The editor of the Bulletin newspapers, which cover a number of Boston neighborhoods as well as Norwood, is purchasing the independent chain from its retiring owners. @universalhub.com has the story. www.universalhub.com/2025/editor-...
A biting critique of Big Philanthropy and local news.
"These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no consequences when their calls go badly wrong."
"These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no consequences when their calls go badly wrong."
A reckoning comes for journalism philanthropy
"These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no conseque...
www.niemanlab.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A biting critique of Big Philanthropy and local news.
"These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no consequences when their calls go badly wrong."
"These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no consequences when their calls go badly wrong."
A sign of the times: A witness in the Brown mass-shooting case went to Reddit first, then the police. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2025/12/19/a...
A sign of the times: A witness in the Brown mass-shooting case went to Reddit first, then the police
With the suspect now dead in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Brookline, I want to call your attention to a very strange aspect of the investigation: the…
dankennedy.net
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A sign of the times: A witness in the Brown mass-shooting case went to Reddit first, then the police. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2025/12/19/a...