About Kevin
Kevin Featherly
is owner and president of
Featherly Consulting, L.L.C.. He is a former managing editor with Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and former news editor for McGraw-Hill’s Healthcare Informatics. He was a founding staff member at Channel 4000, the former news Web site of WCCO-TV. Featherly has published thousands of news stories, features and commentaries, with an emphasis on technology and public policy. Publications include
Editor and Publisher, Online Journalism Review, Healthcare Quarterly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonpost.com, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, Utne Reader, City Pages, Minnesota Technology, Minnesota Law and Politics, Politics in Minnesota, Capitol Report, and many, many others.
As an industry consultant, he has produced white papers, market reports and academic research on behalf of healthcare, computer industry and legal services firms. His podcasts have appeared on Microsoft Corp.’s internal Web site, and his video segments news have been commissioned by Capitol Report and by Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bloomington, Minn.
Kevin sometimes works in conjunction with his colleague Frank Jossi. Examples of their work may be viewed at Featherly-Jossi.com.
You can also visit his Facebook and Twitter pages.
Dear Kevin,
I am writing to you on behalf of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. I am a Rights & Permissions Specialist trying to get in touch with you to get permission to reprint an excerpt from “TV’S THREAT GETS BIGGER” © 1986. Could you please contact me asap at the above e-mail or direct dial (617) 351-3661 so that I can send you a formal request? Many thanks, Sheila Egan Varela l Permissions Specialist l Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing l 222 Berkeley Street l Boston, MA 02116 l p: 617-351-3661 l f: 617-351-3546 l sheila.varela@hmhpub.com
Thanks for reaching out. Done deal.
Kevin, I happened by chance to see most of your video on the happenings in Madison.
Well Done. I have been a union member almost my whole working life, and have experienced the difference in the way a worker is treated when they have no protection. As you portray, all workers will be affected by the loss of rights unions have fought for; Non-union workers just don’t realize it. Also, it does seem to me that the actions being taken against unionization is aimed more at reducing unions political clout, along with those rights. Thanks, Rik
Thank you for the kind thoughts, Rik. And thanks for watching the video. You’ve struck at the heart of what I think were some of the most cogent observations made by the people I interviewed for the movie.
Again, many thanks.
Kevin Featherly
I am writing to thank you for the wonderful poem, “Ted”(04/27/11). I am only sorry I and my family (husband whom Ted considered a son, and grandchildren)could not have been there at the service to hear it read, to meet you and to personally thank you for the touching remembrances of my father. You captured him perfectly- and he was the lucky one to have your friendship. Thank you for that. It is a great comfort at this time to know he had such deep and loving friendships. Thats the real honor.
Thank you, Connie. That means a great deal to me. I loved Ted, and his loss is a big hole that I haven’t figured out how to fill. Whenever I had down time in my work, I would always try to run over and see him, but now that he is gone, I don’t know what to do with myself. Those are the moments I miss him the most.
Kevin