Since August, my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I have been alerting our growing audience to the fact that we decided the title of our independent weekly news magazine needed to take advantage of our better-known 10-year-old brand name BINJ.
So we are pleased to announce that as of today, November 1, 2025, BINJ.News is the title of our weekly magazine. And you can read it at, yes, https://binj.news … a URL we’ve already been using for over a year for our now-retired organizational website.
See why we did what we did? Much easier to remember the name and where to find it on the web when the nomenclature is the same for both. In an era when social media platforms and so-called AI are making it harder and harder for people to find us, we’re making that as simple and mnemonic as possible.
It’s also worthy of note that this edition of the BINJ.News weekly newsletter will pick up where its predecessor publication HorizonMass left off: Vol 3, No. 12.
Plus, we’re very excited to launch the new BINJ.News website—a clean, attractive, and up-to-the minute build by our resident webmaster John Loftus with some great design assistance from Jason Brown of Journalism New England. All the content from our also retired HorizonMass website is now fully consolidated with everything on the old BINJ website. Whether you want to read our latest reporting, dive deep into our decade-old archive, or find out more about how we do what we do, BINJ.News is the place to go.
Beyond that, we’ve just switched over to a new and far more sophisticated database for our donor data. Just in time for today’s start of our annual two-month fundraiser, partnering, as ever, with the NewsMatch program sponsored by the Institute for Nonprofit News and the Miami Foundation.
Making this a really big day for BINJ in the most critical moment in our history. Now the question is: Can we raise the money we need to start 2026 in solid financial shape? The better to use our shiny new magazine name, website, and database to produce more and better Boston area news and views you all can use in the interest of democracy?
That remains to be seen. But we couldn’t be in better shape to give that effort our strongest possible shot.
If you’d like to help us out, know that all individual donations up to $1,000 will be matched for a total of $15,000 by the NewsMatch program until December 31. Just click the Donate button on any page of our BINJ.News site to give us whatever you can afford.
Otherwise, we look forward to our “Roast the News” fundraiser next Saturday, Nov. 8! Click here to buy tickets and hang out with some of the Boston area’s leading comic and literary lights in support of BINJ! And spread the word to your friends and family!
Thanks very much to our longtime fans for sticking with us all these years. We couldn’t have gotten to this exciting point without the constant patronage of thousands of friends like you all.
Let’s see if we can go 10 more years producing grassroots community journalism in the public interest. We’re ready to go if you all are.
This editorial was produced for BINJ.News, the independent weekly magazine of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, and is syndicated by BINJ’s MassWire news service.
