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Academic and journalist at Northeastern University. Follow me on Bluesky at dankennedy-dot-net and on Threads at dankennedy_nu.
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Joined July 2008
The New England First Amendment Coalition (@FiveFreedoms) offers support for a Massachusetts shield law to protect confidential sources and reporting materials.
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New at Media Nation: How Fall River's sparse news ecosystem is responding to the tragic Gabriel House fire.
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New at Media Nation: Taking a closer look at the numbers behind a major new study of the local news crisis by Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack.
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New at Media Nation: The @NewBedfordLight and the @BostonGlobe file lawsuits to pry loose public records.
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Boston Globe reader tells Montreal's La Presse: Richard Nixon was an 'altar boy' compared to Donald Trump. New at Media Nation.
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My friend @SethGitell pays tribute to his former boss, Mayor Tom Menino, in a piece for @CWBeacon.
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New at Media Nation: Why Hearst's acquisition in Dallas is good news. Plus, a paper in Vermont goes nonprofit, and a New Hampshire paper folds (again).
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Steve is a good guy and a good manager.
Opinion | Steve Poftak: From T to Boston research bureau via @BostonGlobe.
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On the latest "What Works" podcast, Katherine Ann Rowlands tells Ellen Clegg and me how the Bay City News Foundation acquired The Mendocino Voice and took it nonprofit. We reported on the Voice in our book, "What Works in Community News."
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New at Media Nation: Did a Republican congressman's aide try to goad her boss' opponents using a fake name? Great reporting by my fellow Northeastern alum David McKay Wilson.
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New at Media Nation: In a long-overdue move, the IRS rules that religious leaders can endorse political candidates. The ruling comes days after Episcopal Bishop Sean Rowe said the church must stand in resistance to Trump. That just got a little easier.
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New at Media Nation: Newsworthiness aside, The New York Times slipped up on ethics in its not-so-big Mamdani exclusive.
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New at Media Nation: A new biography of John Hancock calls to mind Bill Fowler's vivid 45-year-old classic "The Baron of Beacon Hill."
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New at Media Nation: Have the Red Sox gone MAGA? What does that mean for The Boston Globe given that both the Sox and the Globe are owned by billionaire John Henry? Here's what we know about that meet-and-greet with Trump.
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New at Media Nation: On the eve of Independence Day, a shocking account of torture enabled by the Trump regime.
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Traveling for the Fourth? Take the "What Works" podcast with you! Since 2021, Ellen Clegg and I have dropped 103 wicked cool jolts of optimism about the future of local news.
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The hate-crimes investigation of Bob Vylan's antisemitic rant underlines the differences in free-speech laws in the U.K. and the U.S. I shared my thoughts with @NUGlobalNews.
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New at Media Nation: Despite that shameful "60 Minutes" settlement, the Paramount-Skydance merger still faces obstacles from Democratic senators and a threatened lawsuit by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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