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Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on “Beat the Press,” a weekly media program on Boston’s GBH-TV. His blog, Media Nation, is online at www.dankennedy.net. Kennedy’s most recent book, The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century, was published in 2018.

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August 5, 2014

With staffers leaving and the local daily shrinking, the New Haven Independent prepares to reboot

It’s been one of the notable successes in nonprofit online community journalism. Now the Independent is dealing with an issue common to small outlets: staff turnover.

May 12, 2014

Why is The Washington Post holding a live event in Boston?

Washington Post Live is a small way for the D.C. newspaper to expand its brand outside the Beltway.

January 16, 2014

Will 2014 be the year the Banyan Project finally takes flight?

The idea of a news cooperative — owned by the community it covers — is closer to getting a real-world test in Massachusetts.

Ezra Klein illustrates why news orgs should embrace the network

Does the idea of giving up some control and moving to a federated, networked model of journalism bother some media executives?

December 3, 2013

The New Haven Independent seeks to expand its hyperlocal mission to low-power radio

Why be limited to one medium? Taking to the terrestrial airwaves would bring a new audience to the Independent’s journalism.

October 29, 2013

Four takeaways from new owner John Henry’s message to readers of The Boston Globe

“A feisty newspaper owner who fights back in public? Bring it on. That’s certainly an improvement over the gray management style of the Times Company.”

July 8, 2013

Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news

Nonprofits are great, but a replicable, sustainable model for making money in local news online is the holy grail. In upstate New York, The Batavian is showing the way.

June 5, 2013

A murder, a media frenzy, and the rise of a new form of local news

In this excerpt from The Wired City, Dan Kennedy examines how the New Haven Independent — one of the brightest stars of local online journalism — proved both its mettle and its distinctive take on the news when covering a major crime.

June 4, 2013

Tracing the links between civic engagement and the revival of local journalism

Serving the public isn’t enough for journalism, the Northeastern University professor says. His new book The Wired City taught him that the public first has to be created, nurtured, and given a voice.

May 1, 2013

A community news co-op, aiming to build a replicable model, moves a step closer to reality

The Banyan Project, an attempt to build sustainable, locally owned and controlled news sources, is getting closer to launch in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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