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Frank Sennett

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  • Executive Editor, Connect, Stacker
Chicago
As seen in: Stacker, Apple Podcasts, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Newsweek, Audible Blog, Arizona Daily Star, Crain's Chicago Business, Omaha World-Herald, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Tulsa World and
Covers:  Culture and business
Doesn't Cover: brain freeze, spatula recycling
SHADOW STATE, Best New Novel by a Chicagoan-@Chicago_Reader. Exec Editor, Connect @Stacker, @SNHU MFA adjunct Past: @CrainsChicago @TimeOutChicago @MTV @Newcity

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Frank Sennett’s Biography

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I spent most of my growing-up years in Montana, and I've spent most of my working years in Chicago (with a detour in Spokane, Washington). My career so far has consisted of writing, editing, teaching writing, managing editorial operations and creating media products, mostly digital. I sense a pattern.

I'm the executive editor of the Stacker Connect newswire and publisher and editor-in-chief of Chicago Culture Authority, previously serving as director of digital strategy and custom media for Cra…

Frank Sennett’s Journalist Portfolio

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Proud Boys Convictions May Counter Extremist Law Enforcement Infiltration

Proud Boys Convictions May Counter Extremist Law Enforcement Infiltration

The lack of a formal domestic terror designation demonstrably hinders efforts to remove individuals affiliate…

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5 Crime Novels That Deepen Our Understanding of Collective Trauma

5 Crime Novels That Deepen Our Understanding of Collective Trauma

Set in the aftermath of national tragedy, these books help readers contextualize societal wounds even as they…

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Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff of Google

Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff of Google

An excerpt from Frank Sennett's book Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever details the drama behind Groupon's rejection…

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Can Michael Jordan rebound?

Can Michael Jordan rebound?

Michael Jordan has gone cold...

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Boost girls' interest in science and technology to the next stage

Boost girls' interest in science and technology to the next stage

An interview with astronaut Sally Ride

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The latest revival of Sondheim's Company is a gender revelation

The latest revival of Sondheim's Company is a gender revelation

In the summer of 2016, when director Marianne Elliott first workshopped the revival of Company she and Stephe…

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Articles

Brokeback Mountain scales the heights of forbidden love at Chicago Shakes

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By Frank Sennett
| chicagocultureauthority.com
During Thursday’s opening of the North American premiere of Brokeback Mountain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, my mind flashed to the chorus of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.” Adapted by Ashley Robinson from the Annie Proulx short story, this tragic tale of two lost souls swimming in the fishbowl of rural Wyoming year after year, as they run over the same old ground and find the same old fears, ultimately packs an emotional punch. But it takes a while to get there.
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Spamalot is alive and kicking at Broadway in Chicago’s CIBC Theatre

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By Frank Sennett
| chicagocultureauthority.com
I had the pleasure of introducing my youngest son to the delights of Monty Python via the National Tour of Spamalot, now onstage at Broadway in Chicago’s CIBC Theatre. This is a kid who loves to laugh, but I wasn’t sure how well the material would hold up two generations after my uncles turned me on to the movie that inspired this show. (Monty Python truly owes a great debt to the fun uncles of the world.) Never doubt the power of Python.
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Want to Boost the GEO Impact of Your Brand Content? Try This One Weird Trick.

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By Frank Sennett
| Stacker Verified
Way back at the dawn of the GEO search era (Jan. 29 2025, to be exact), I sat on a panel at the Chicago headquarters of global PR agency Golin to discuss how brands could successfully surface their content in those coveted LLM search boxes. The Golin exec sitting next to me shared something from the agency’s nascent research that we at Stacker soon confirmed to be true: Brand content that earns pickups in reputable news outlets stands the best chance of getting cited in LLM search results.
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Although there were computer labs at Northwestern when I arrived on campus, I did use typewriters in my freshman newswriting lab at Medill.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Fletch, Hildy Johnson, Nash Hansen

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Laptop, iPhone, brain

Awards

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Chicago Headline Club Lisagor Award

Cultural journalism

Earned two Lisagor Awards for my work in Newcity Chicago.

Scripps Howard Award

2001 - Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Web Reporting

Shared in this team award for sonnet coverage of the troubled Woodstock '99 music festival

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Booklist Top 10 Business Books of the Year

2012

Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever (St. Martin's Press) was named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year by the American Library Association's Booklist magazine