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Articles by Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on “Beat the Press,” a weekly media program on Boston’s WGBH-TV. His blog, Media Nation, is online at www.dankennedy.net.
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February 7, 2013
Want to share Globe stories on Twitter? Your readers will hit a paywall after just two clicks a month.
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December 18, 2012
The FOIA-generating startup will benefit from the new foundation aimed at crowdsourcing donations to news organizations.
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September 11, 2012
Gage Skidmore is probably behind some of the photos of Republican politicians you’ve seen online. He shoots for credit, not for money.
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September 6, 2012
The Register isn’t the sad, moribund daily it was not too long ago. But where’s the beef?
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August 1, 2012
Technologies have always changed how the news gets presented and discovered — from Ben Franklin’s time forward.
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July 13, 2012
Tom Stites and others are betting that a news site owned by community members can be sustainable, and they’re starting in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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May 29, 2012
Is Michael Wolff right about Facebook, and is online advertising doomed to fail? If so, here are a few ways news organizations could prepare.
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February 20, 2012
The new approach: “We will be posting comments that help to illuminate the story; that provide history and context and perspective that will guide New Haven Independent readers to a more thorough understanding of what is going on.”
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February 15, 2012
Dan Kennedy, who’s writing a book about the New Haven Independent, hopes it will reverse its decision to suspend user comments.
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December 21, 2011
Paywalls may become more popular in 2012; that doesn’t mean they’ll be enough to save a flailing industry.
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September 12, 2011
Getting online readers to pay for news is a challenge, but the new BostonGlobe.com offers hope for newspapers that want to create an app-like experience but control their own distribution.