Dan Kennedy

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Followers
4.2K
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

🚀 Final reminder! Our free, all-day webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held tomorrow, May 21. Sponsored by What Works: The Future of Local News, a project based at @northeastern. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-19873623693452 views 🚀 Final reminder! Our free, all-day webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held tomorrow, May 21. Sponsored by What Works: The Future of Local News, a project based at @northeastern. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345 We've got a great lineup for our free May 21 What Works webinar, "Audience, AI and Events," with hands-on workshops throughout the day. Please register! #journalism https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345?aff=oddtdtcreator1 views We've got a great lineup for our free May 21 What Works webinar, "Audience, AI and Events," with hands-on workshops throughout the day. Please register! #journalism https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345?aff=oddtdtcreator

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: New at Media Nation: Trump falsely claims treason in ordering hi · 6 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
2.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
11×
Follows 366 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post New at Media Nation: Trump falsely claims treason in ordering his acting AG to target freedom of the press. #FirstAmendment https://dankennedy.net/2026/05/12/trump-falsely-claims-treason-in-ordering-his-acting-ag-to-target-freedom-of-the-press/ ★ 6
How graffiti detracts from bike paths: A spray-painted ride along the Tri-Community Greenway in Winchester, Woburn and Stoneham. New at Media Nation. https://dankennedy.net/2026/05/27/how-graffiti-detracts-from-bike-paths-a-spray-painted-r… ★ 1 Did you miss our What Works webinar for local-news folks on "Audience, AI and Events"? We've got you covered with videos from every session. #journalism https://whatworks.news/2026/05/22/did-you-miss-our-webinar-on-audience-ai-and-events-h… 🚀 Final reminder! Our free, all-day webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held tomorrow, May 21. Sponsored by What Works: The Future of Local News, a project based at @northeastern. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e… ★ 2 Coming Thursday, May 21! Our free, all-day What Works webinar on "Audience, AI and Events." We've got some great workshops planned as well as a keynote by Dan Lothian and Lee Hill of @gbhnews.bsky.social. Please register today. #journalism… Religious-right House members to public schools: Ban these books or lose your funding. New at Media Nation. #FirstAmendment https://dankennedy.net/2026/05/18/religious-right-house-members-to-public-schools-ban-these-books-or-lose-your-fund… ★ 1 Just a bit more than a week to go before our free What Works all-day webinar on "Audience, AI and Events." If you're a local-news publisher, journalist or volunteer, you won't want to miss this chance to hone your skills. Coming May 21! #j… On the new "What Works" podcast, Joe Kriesberg and Laura Colarusso tell us about the present and future of CommonWealth Beacon, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. #journalism https://whatworks.news/2026/05/11/joe-kriesberg-and-laur… ★ 1 We've got a great lineup for our free May 21 What Works webinar, "Audience, AI and Events," with hands-on workshops throughout the day. Please register! #journalism https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345?… ★ 1 New at Media Nation: Kash Patel's ongoing crusade to weaponize the FBI against freedom of the press. #FirstAmendment https://dankennedy.net/2026/05/07/kash-patels-ongoing-crusade-to-weaponize-the-fbi-against-freedom-of-the-press/ ★ 3 Our free, all-day What Works webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held on May 21. The day will feature interactive workshops led by experienced news leaders. #journalism Register today by clicking here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e… New at Media Nation: Thinking through the legal and ethical issues raised by Kash Patel's libel suit against The Atlantic. #FirstAmendment. https://dankennedy.net/2026/04/22/thinking-through-the-legal-and-ethical-issues-raised-by-kash-pate… ★ 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

58/100 Fair
  • Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
81%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

I'm a journalist and academic specializing in the future of local news. My next book, co-authored with Ellen Clegg, will be called "What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate." It will be published by Beacon Press in early 2024. Follow our updates at our website and podcast as well as my blog, Media Nation, both in the links below. Email me at dan-dot-kennedy-at-northeastern-dot-edu. #journalism #LocalNews #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #boston

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🚀 Final reminder! Our free, all-day webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held tomorrow, May 21. Sponsored by What Works: The Future of Local News, a project based at @northeastern. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345 We've got a great lineup for our free May 21 What Works webinar, "Audience, AI and Events," with hands-on workshops throughout the day. Please register! #journalism https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345?aff=oddtdtcreator Our free, all-day What Works webinar on "Audience, AI and Events" will be held on May 21. The day will feature interactive workshops led by experienced news leaders. #journalism Register today by clicking here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-ai-and-events-tickets-1987362369345

🔀 Audience overlap

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