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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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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 17

Right-wing group’s attacks undermining freedom of inquiry in education in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Commentary by Maurice Cunningham in @CWBeacon. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/right-…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. The scope of the far right’s project to abolish our freedoms to inquire and learn is breathtaking.

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 11

My friend @SethGitell pays tribute to his former boss, Mayor Tom Menino, in a piece for @CWBeacon. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/with-c…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. Menino’s steadfast commitment to the convention center stands as an unparalleled success in the history of the city. With its naming in his honor, the lifelong Hyde Park resident, who for years was...

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · 14 h

New at Media Nation: What we can all do to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The International Rescue Committee is still providing assistance to starving Palestinians. I've included a link to donate. dankennedy.net/2025/07/28/wha…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 25

Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the First Amendment: A story more complicated than you might remember. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2025/07/25/hul…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. The professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died Thursday at 71. Among other things, Hogan’s death has prompted reminders that he, with the help of secret financing from Silicon Valley billionaire P…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 24

New at Media Nation: @bostonglobe editor Nancy Barnes addresses security following an assault on two of her journalists. dankennedy.net/2025/07/24/glo…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 24

Former @bostonglobe reporter Caroline Louise Cole, co-founder of the North Andover Citizen, joins nonprofit radio station and website @WHAVRadio of Haverhill as a staff reporter. docs.google.com/document/d/1I4…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 24

I just sent out this week's Media Nation supporters newsletter. For $6 a month, you'll receive a weekly newsletter with all sorts of exclusive goodies. Media Nation itself remains free and open to all at dankennedy-dot-net. patreon.com/c/dankennedy

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. creating Media Nation • The press, politics, culture and other p

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 24

New at Media Nation: An astonishing passage in the @WSJ's latest exclusive on Trump and Epstein. Plus, two @BostonGlobe journalists are attacked while on assignment at Mass and Cass, and veteran political reporter @gintautasd moves to a new gig. dankennedy.net/2025/07/24/an-…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. This morning I want to highlight an astonishing passage in The Wall Street Journal’s new report (gift link) that Donald Trump’s name does indeed show up in the Epstein files: They told …

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 23

New at Media Nation: Could Alden Global Capital swoop in and destroy The Dallas Morning News? Plus, Patrick Soon-Shiong's latest harebrained scheme for the Los Angeles Times. dankennedy.net/2025/07/23/cou…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. Less than two weeks ago I wrote that Hearst’s plan to acquire The Dallas Morning News and add it to its expanding group of Texas newspapers was a positive development for the Lone Star State.…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 22

New at Media Nation: Adopt A Station is an ingenious effort to help at-risk public radio outlets. dankennedy.net/2025/07/22/ado…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. This is ingenious. On Monday, Media Nation commenter Steve Stein asked: The $1.1B cut to public broadcasting is less than $10 per taxpayer. (BTW, is that PER YEAR or over 10 years?) [Congress resci…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 22

Your reminder that social distribution no longer works for journalism. Please sign up for free email delivery of Media Nation — and consider becoming a supporter for just $6 a month. dankennedy.net/media-nation-b…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 21

New at Media Nation: Jonathan Capehart may be the most prominent journalist yet to quit The Washington Post. dankennedy.net/2025/07/21/jon…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. Is Jonathan Capehart the most visible journalist to quit The Washington Post? With his roles on the “PBS NewsHour” and MSNBC, he is ubiquitous. And now he’s taken the buyout rathe…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 18

New at Media Nation: From Colbert to Epstein to Breonna Taylor, a roundup of today's terrible news from Trumpworld. Plus: A possible link between Trump's diagnosis and dementia, and the end of government funding for public media. dankennedy.net/2025/07/18/fro…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 17

New at Media Nation: An assault on the #FirstAmendment? Yes. But also a lesson in the ethics of reporting police news. dankennedy.net/2025/07/17/an-…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. Now here’s an interesting dilemma. A digital news organization publishes a police blotter item about an arrest. The arrest is later expunged, and the arrestee contacts the news outlet demandi…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 17

If you're a @Northeastern journalism alum with some experience, I have a really interesting Boston-based job I want to let you know about. I'd love to see this go to one of my former students. Hit me up in the DMs.

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 16

The New England First Amendment Coalition (@FiveFreedoms) offers support for a Massachusetts shield law to protect confidential sources and reporting materials. myemail.constantcontact.com/Coalition-Test…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 16

New at Media Nation: How Fall River's sparse news ecosystem is responding to the tragic Gabriel House fire. dankennedy.net/2025/07/16/how…

dankennedy_nu's tweet image. New at Media Nation: How Fall River's sparse news ecosystem is responding to the tragic Gabriel House fire. dankennedy.net/2025/07/16/how…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 15

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. whatworks.news/2025/07/15/tak…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. By Dan Kennedy For the past 16 years I’ve been reporting on the decline of local news and on efforts to offset it. But though it’s simple enough to spout anecdotes, it can be more chall…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 14

New at Media Nation: The @NewBedfordLight and the @BostonGlobe file lawsuits to pry loose public records. dankennedy.net/2025/07/14/the…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. The New Bedford Light and The Boston Globe are both suing the city of New Bedford in an attempt to pry loose public records. The Light seeks records pertaining to funds the city awarded that it rec…

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Dan Kennedy 🇺🇦 is on Bluesky@dankennedy_nu · Jul 12

Boston Globe reader tells Montreal's La Presse: Richard Nixon was an 'altar boy' compared to Donald Trump. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2025/07/12/bos…

dankennedy_nu's tweet card. Two weeks ago The Boston Globe published letters from readers of La Presse, a Montreal newspaper, in which they expressed their views about Donald Trump. The letters were published in both the Glob…

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