Dan Caspi (1 December 1945 – 22 January 2017) was a lecturer at the Communication Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.

[1][2][3] Throughout his career, Caspi has combined research with public activity and extensive, lively commentary, publishing hundreds of articles in the printed daily and online press, including regular columns in a Jerusalem local paper, in the Israel Publishers’ Association monthly Otot ("Signals")' in Haayin Hashviit ("The Seventh Eye", an online media journal)' the op-ed section of ynet (an online newspaper produced by Yedioth Ahronoth) and a blog for Ha'aretz.

Dan Caspi (originally Casapu) was born in Săveni, part of the Moldavia region of northeastern Romania.

Although physical handicapped by cerebral palsy(CP), he attended regular local schools in Romania and then in Israel after moving there with his family in 1960, at the age of 14.

After receiving his degree in 1976, he spent a year of post-doctoral studies at MIT, under the auspices of Ithiel de Sola Pool., followed by work at other universities, including Rutgers, Manchester, Concordia, the London School of Economics and Paris VIII.

'Don't patronize me: media-by and media-for minorities', Ethnic and Racial Studies, First published on: 28 April 2010 (iFirst) 34:1, 62-82.

• Dan Caspi, On Media and Politics: Between Enlightened Authority and Social Responsibility, Israel Affairs.

• Hanna Adoni, Akiba A. Cohen and Dan Caspi, The consumer's choice: Language, media consumption and hybrid identities of minorities.

• Dan Caspi, Hanna Adoni, Akiba A. Cohen and Nelly Elias, The Red and the White and the Blue: the Russian Media in Israel.

Dan Caspi, Avraham Diskin and Emanuel Gutmann, eds.The Roots of Begin’s Success: The 1981 Elections.

Caspi has long been a staunch opponent of family-owned media conglomerates in Israel and has warned repeatedly of the connection between capital, the press and government, especially regarding the rise in power of the "media barons" who head these conglomerates.

In the early 1990s, Caspi published pieces critical of their cross-ownership and control of television broadcast channels.

One of his newspaper articles at the time, Citizen N. M. (Hadashot, October 8, 1992), coined a lasting nickname for Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Noni Mozes.

In the mid-1990s, Caspi revealed that violence against women even occurs in academic circles, breaking his colleagues’ extended silence by publishing an article entitled Don't Ask Him (People in the Forefront (Haaretz daily supplement), January 27, 1995).