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A South Shore AI-generated news site put up a paywall. Hundreds of readers, including a police chief, opened their wallets.

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who researches local news, said that in terms of reach alone, there’s no other outlet on the South Shore that is comparable. 
Commonwealth Beacon

Ending the requirement that legal ads be published by news outlets would harm democracy and journalism

Op-ed by Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University.
CBS Boston

Professor Dan Kennedy on the state of the media, free speech

WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller discusses the state of the media with Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy.
WGBH

Local colleges targeted amid growing campus culture wars

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, said records laws are being “weaponized,” not to foster debate but to intimidate professors and foreign students. For institutions, he said, the demands can seem never-ending.
WCVB TV

Kimmel suspension draws backlash, comedians warn of chilling effect

“It’s almost immaterial what [Kimmel] said,” said First Amendment expert Dan Kennedy, “It did seem to me that he was being more insulting to President Trump than he was of Charlie Kirk, so there really shouldn’t have been any sensitivities raised. The president is supposed to be able to take speech like this.”
GBH

Local editors worry ‘pink slime’ journalism poses real danger

Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and co-author of a book called “What Works in Community News,” said these sites are currently limited in their reach. 
AFP

Trump’s budget hacksaw leaves public broadcasting on precipice

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, stressed it is in those very areas where the funding cuts are likely to have “a devastating effect.”
Barron's

Trump’s Budget Hacksaw Leaves Public Broadcasting On Precipice

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, stressed it is in those very areas where the funding cuts are likely to have “a devastating effect.”
The Week

Why is ABC’s firing of Terry Moran roiling journalists?

ABC was “right to suspend Moran” but “wrong to get rid of him,” said Northeastern University journalism Professor Dan Kennedy in his Media Nation newsletter.
Fox News

Washington Post Opinions section anxiously awaits new leader after Jeff Bezos pushed David Shipley out

At the time, Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy wrote that Hiatt’s unexpected passing marked the end of “a period of remarkable stability at the top of The Washington Post’s masthead.”

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