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Dan Kennedy, Assistant Professor

Professor Kennedy teaches news reporting, media law and other journalism courses, with an emphasis on blogging and technology. He writes a weekly online column for The Guardian and is a contributing writer for CommonWealth Magazine and the Boston Phoenix. Kennedy is also a regular panelist on Beat the Press, a weekly media roundtable on WGBH-TV (Channel 2).
 
A former media critic for the Phoenix, he is the 2001 recipient of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. In 2008 he was a finalist in the Syracuse University Mirror Awards for his Guardian commentaries on media issues. He is the author of Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes (Rodale, 2003), a book about the culture of dwarfism.

His blog, Media Nation, is online at medianation.blogspot.com.

Kennedy received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University and his master's degree in American history from Boston University. From 1979-'88, he was a reporter and editor for the Daily Times Chronicle, in Woburn, Mass. Professor Kennedy can be reached at (617) 373-5187 or by e-mail at da.kennedy@neu.edu.

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