Ellen Clegg
@ellenclegg.bsky.social
Writer, editor. Boston Globe lifer and a Broadie for a bit. Co-author, "What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate" (Beacon Press). Co-founder of Brookline.News.
Reposted by Ellen Clegg
On the latest "What Works" podcast, Jennifer Peter, the new editor of The Marshall Project, tells @ellenclegg.bsky.social and @dankennedy.net about how the nonprofit covers criminal justice — including how it is extending its work to local news. Plus our Quick Takes. whatworks.news/2025/12/23/j...
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
On the latest "What Works" podcast, Jennifer Peter, the new editor of The Marshall Project, tells @ellenclegg.bsky.social and @dankennedy.net about how the nonprofit covers criminal justice — including how it is extending its work to local news. Plus our Quick Takes. whatworks.news/2025/12/23/j...
Reposted by Ellen Clegg
Three cheers for local journalism (especially the Brookline News)
As always, misinformation is absolutely flying right now about the killing in Brookline from last night. Twitter is especially bad. I strongly recommend prioritizing official sources and reputable news outlets.
Here's our story with the most up to date information.
brookline.news/person-taken...
Here's our story with the most up to date information.
brookline.news/person-taken...
MIT professor fatally shot on Gibbs Street - Brookline.News
Police initially responded to shots fired on Gibbs Street between 8 and 9 p.m. A man later identified as Nuno Loureiro was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and died overnight.
brookline.news
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Three cheers for local journalism (especially the Brookline News)
Civic engagement on a local level is crucial - and that starts with fact-based reporting. Dan makes an eloquent case for supporting your local news outlet.
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whatworks.news/2024/11/08/w...
We need a renewal of civic life — and that has to start by supporting local journalism
By Dan Kennedy Following Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night, I’ve seen calls on social media to support independent news organizations like ProPublica and The Guardian rather than tra…
whatworks.news
November 15, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Civic engagement on a local level is crucial - and that starts with fact-based reporting. Dan makes an eloquent case for supporting your local news outlet.
whatworks.news/2024/11/08/w...
whatworks.news/2024/11/08/w...
Well-reported and chilling.
November 15, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Well-reported and chilling.
Followed Dan right into the Blue!
New at Media Nation: Bluesky is having its moment. Plus, Patrick Soon-Shiong reverses himself on that canceled Harris endorsement in the LA Times, and please come to our local-news event in Ipswich, Mass., this evening. #journalism #localnews
Bluesky is having its moment; plus, Soon-Shiong reverses himself, and a local-news event in Ipswich
From the moment that Elon Musk bought Twitter in late 2022 and took a wrecking ball to it, millions of appalled users have sought alternatives. Mastodon, a decentralized nonprofit, got some early b…
dankennedy.net
November 15, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Followed Dan right into the Blue!