Dan Kennedy is a journalism professor at Northeastern and the author of two previous books on the future of news.

There have been 37 incidents of mass killings with 160 victims in the United States in 2024 so far, according to a database maintained by USA TODAY, Northeastern University and The Associated Press.

Koen Pauwels, a professor of marketing at Northeastern University says: “Humans are way better still in getting cues from their environment and knowing the context.” If you want to give a gift that’s really a hit, it looks like you’ll still have to give the AI elves a helping hand.

Harry Levant, the director of gambling policy with the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University, said he worried about practices like in-game betting and deceptive marketing.

On the fence about going? Imagine how it might feel, said Laurie Kramer, professor of psychology at Northeastern. If you see yourself feeling unsafe, getting defensive, or lashing out, those might be signs to sit this one out.

“This is going to continue to increase before it gets better,” per Darin Detwiler, a Northeastern University professor and food safety advocate who said his son died as a result of an E. coli outbreak.

Khan and Kanter’s skepticism of settlements was rooted in a belief that their agencies shouldn’t act like “arms of law firms” as deals are crafted, said John Kwoka, a Northeastern University law professor whose research casts doubt on the efficacy of merger remedies. 

Caleb Gayle is the author of the forthcoming book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, and a professor at Northeastern University.

Reade, an English professor at Northeastern University London, offers an expansive history of the epic’s reception as it was interpreted and then put to use by figures as varied as Thomas Jefferson and Dorothy Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt.

But it has plenty of skeptics, too. Michael Ann DeVito, a professor of computer sciences and communication studies at Northeastern University, called into question the accuracy of the platform, telling Northeastern Global News, “There’s still no actual intelligence, just context-free pattern matching based on language, so there’s still a pretty good chance that some of what gets […]

“This will not result in a loss of local news in Everett,” said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who studies the future of local news.

Jill Abramson was a senior lecturer in the Harvard English Department from 2014 to 2023 and was executive editor of The New York Times from 2011 to 2014. She currently teaches at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.