In The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age, Danvers resident Dan Kennedy tells the story of the New Haven Independent, a nonprofit community website reinventing local journalism. Through close attention to city government, schools and an ongoing conversation with its readers, their small staff of journalists have created a promising model of how to provide the public with the information they need.
At a time of pessimism over the future of journalism, The Wired City offers hope. What Kennedy documents is not the death of journalism but rather the uncertain and sometimes painful early stages of rebirth.
Dan Kennedy is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a nationally known media commentator who writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab, the Huffington Post, and other publications.
He is a panelist on Beat the Press, an award-winning weekly media roundtable on WGBH-TV. A former media columnist for The Guardian, CommonWealth Magazine and the Boston Phoenix, he is a past winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism.
To read more by Dan Kennedy, visit his blog Media Nation where he writes about the press, politics, technology, culture and other passions.
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