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.
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Last Notes npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: Jeff Bezos is reinventing The Washington Post — again. And this time he's on his own. #journalism npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy I don’t understand why the legal system is so intent on tormenting Alec Baldwin. What happened seems like a tragic accident that he had nothing to do with. What should he have done differently? Enlighten me. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1qw5…037m Better than nothing, but it's their grandparents who really need it. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub18am…9nqv I think the answer was zero. Of course Gannett closed and merged a number of weeklies in Eastern Mass. about a year and a half ago. https://dankennedy.net/2022/03/17/gannett-goes-a-massive-spree-of-closing-and-merging-weekly-newspapers/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: The Christian Science Monitor finds hope amid the horror of the Israel-Hamas war. https://dankennedy.net/2023/11/02/the-christian-science-monitor-finds-hope-amid-the-horror-of-the-israel-hamas-war/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at What Works: Sahan Journal's owner to step down. Plus, checking in with The Mendocino Voice and NJ Spotlight News. #LocalNews #journalism https://whatworks.news/2023/11/01/sahan-journals-founder-to-step-down-plus-checking-in-with-the-mendo-voice-and-nj-spotlight-news/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy What do you think the biggest stories about the news media have been so far in 2023? Here's what I've got: npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: One year later, calculating the damage that Elon Musk has done to Twitter. https://dankennedy.net/2023/10/30/one-year-later-calculating-the-damage-elon-musk-has-done-to-twitter/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: Another mass shooting underscores why people are turning away from news. #journalism https://dankennedy.net/2023/10/26/another-mass-shooting-underscores-why-people-are-turning-away-from-news/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy 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. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy Jack Authelet, the legendary retired editor of the Foxboro (MA) Reporter, dies at 90. #LocalNews #journalism https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/foxboros-jack-authelet-dies-at-age-90/article_abfd4cfd-2bed-5d06-9777-1bafeb0ee66c.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy Kind of awe-inspiring to watch Jann Wenner cluelessly stumble into his undoing. He seems vaguely aware that it's not going well, but he quickly recovers to unleash his bloated ego on other topics. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/arts/jann-wenner-the-masters-interview.html npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy Today would be a great day to become a member of Media Nation. For $5 a month, you'll receive a weekly newsletter with a round-up of the week’s posts, photography, a song of the week and other goodies. Please sign up here: https://patreon.com/dankennedy npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1z4m…saga As long as we can continue to make fun of Romney. I was hoping he’d strap Trump to the roof of his station wagon. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1wwg…35qm It’s not important except to a few people. It was something related to my work, and the relevant people are on Twitter and nowhere else. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy Interesting day on social media that served as a reminder that there are still some important conversations that are only taking place on X/Twitter. I wish it were otherwise, but that's the reality. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy The Colorado Sun, a pioneering for-profit/ nonprofit hybrid, moves toward a fully nonprofit model. New by me at @npub1hee…t884. #LocalNews #journalism https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/the-colorado-sun-a-pioneering-for-profit-nonprofit-hybrid-moves-toward-a-fully-nonprofit-model/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: Isaacson's screw-up over Crimea will hurt his book — and limit the damage to Musk. https://dankennedy.net/2023/09/12/isaacsons-screw-up-over-crimea-will-hurt-his-book-and-limit-the-damage-to-musk/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: How our flawed Constitution is enabling the triumph of authoritarianism. https://dankennedy.net/2023/09/11/how-our-flawed-constitution-is-enabling-the-triumph-of-authoritarianism/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1lea…zztp I think what people are reacting to is the near-absence of news organizations and sports media on Mastodon. We can talk news and sports all we want, but it's helpful to have something to bounce off of. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1z2d…7yfv You can’t compare a rapid economic collapse and recovery, all due to COVID, with what Obama accomplished in responding to the worst financial crisis since the ’30s. That said, Biden (and Obama) are both superlative presidents. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy @npub1aj3…4209 The cops didn't do this on their own. There was a search warrant, and a judge signed off on it. npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy New at Media Nation: Nobel Peace Prize winner weighs in on a shocking raid against a Kansas newspaper: "It's happening to you now." #journalism #FirstAmendment https://dankennedy.net/2023/08/12/nobel-winner-weighs-in-on-a-shocking-police-raid-against-a-newspaper-its-happening-to-you-now/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy 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/ npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy Is this $267,000 RV the one that Clarence Thomas says he likes to park at Walmart? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html npub1ceq5v608ve0ghuym0k9m8glxsfljegd046cuatgg0xpz5raudfdsqwwxf3 Dan Kennedy 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.
