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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Kennedy, Dan. "The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between free and paid." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 May. 2022.
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Kennedy, D. (2013, Feb. 7). The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between free and paid. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/the-boston-globe-tightens-up-as-executives-seek-the-optimal-balance-between-free-and-paid/
Chicago
Kennedy, Dan. "The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between free and paid." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 7, 2013. Accessed May 19, 2022. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/the-boston-globe-tightens-up-as-executives-seek-the-optimal-balance-between-free-and-paid/.
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