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2025 events
Watch this space! And if you’d like us to come to your library, bookstore or community event, just contact us. Our book covers nine regions in the U.S., from California to New Jersey, from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Memphis, Tennessee. So if we can’t come to you, we’d be happy to set up something via Zoom.
Saturday, Dec. 6, 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
2025 Journalists Forum
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
113 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
Ellen and Dan
Please note that this is an invitation-only event.
Monday, Oct. 20, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
League of Women Voters
Stoughton Public Library
Dan will speak on “News and Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
Click here for more information about this event, which is free and open to all.
Tuesday, September 30, 6 to 8 p.m.
Clark Government Center, Waltham, Mass.
Dan will take part in a panel discussion on “Journalism in Jeopardy”
Click here for more information about this event, which is free and open to all.
Wednesday, June 25, 10 to 11 a.m.
Alliance for Community Media
George Sherman Union, Boston University
Ellen and Dan were the keynote speakers at the ACM’s annual conference
Sunday, June 8, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Greater Andover Indivisible
Christ Church, Andover
Dan took part in a panel titled “What Is True? Navigating the Media Landscape.”
Thursday, May 22, 5 to 7 p.m.
League of Women Voters of Cape Cod
South Yarmouth
Dan spoke on “News and Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
Thursday, May 22, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Carleton-Willard Village, Bedford
Dan delivered the Barbara A. Doyle Lecture on the topic “News and Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
Tuesday, April 1, 3:45 to 5 p.m.
Civic Action Project
UMass Club, Boston
Dan took part a panel titled “Media: What’s News”
2024 events
Tuesday, January 9, 7 p.m.
Brookline Booksmith (in person)
Ellen and Dan
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Thursday, January 11, 7 p.m.
Tewksbury Public Library (online)
Dan
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Tuesday, January 16, 7 p.m.
Book Trader Café, New Haven, Connecticut (in person)
Dan
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Sunday, January 28, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
Lasell Village, Newton, Massachusetts
Ellen and Dan
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Monday, February 26, 7 p.m.
Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ellen and Dan
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Friday, March 1, 7 to 8 p.m.
Silver Unicorn Bookstore
Acton, Massachusetts
Ellen and Dan
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Tuesday, March 5, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Keene State College
Keene, New Hampshire (in person)
Dan
This event is open to the public. Click here for more information.
Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12
Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington, D.C.
Ellen
Details to come.
Friday, March 15
What Works: The Future of Local News conference, all day
Northeastern University
Ellen and Dan
Details to come.
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Tuesday, April 9, 7 to 8 p.m.
Peabody Institute Library of Danvers
Ellen and Dan
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Saturday, April 20, 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
Society of Professional Journalists – New England chapter
Emerson College
Ellen, Dan and Charlie Breitrose, editor of Watertown News
Open to SPJ conference registrants.
Monday, May 6, 6 to 7:45 p.m.
West Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library
Ellen and Dan
Click here for details about this free event.
Monday, August 12, 1 to 2 p.m.
Fitchburg Historical Society
Dan
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Tuesday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, Maine
Ellen and Dan
This “Newsroom Live” event is sponsored by the Maine Trust for Local News.
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Saturday, November 9, 2 to 5 p.m.
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Waltham, Massachusetts
Ellen
This event is a community forum to introduce The Waltham Times, a new nonprofit news organization.
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Thursday, November 14, 6 to 9 p.m.
True North Ale Company, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Dan will be moderating a panel discussion featuring local news publishers
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