Dan Kennedy

Book Review: Why Listening to Community Voices Could Help Revive Local News

August 7, 2020
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If a new generation of community news organizations is to grow and thrive, then we need a renewed sense of civic engagement. And in order to foster that civic engagement, we need journalism that doesn’t just report the news but also listens and collaborates.

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Media Commentary: Walter Lippmann and the Need for Reliable News

August 13, 2019
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99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.

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Book Review: Facing Up to the Damage Wrought by Facebook

July 11, 2018
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“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”

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Book Review: Building “The Wired City” — Journalism’s Future?

June 26, 2013
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Dan Kennedy could have written a book that extols the “Huffington Post,” WGBH, or Patch as the future of serious community journalism. He doesn’t, which means that he is on the side of the angels rather than the corner-cutting devils.

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