New England was exploding with World Cup excitement. It was the first afternoon of Boston’s FIFA Fan Festival on City Hall Plaza, one day before the opening match in Foxborough between Haiti and Scotland. The moment was already…


New England was exploding with World Cup excitement. It was the first afternoon of Boston’s FIFA Fan Festival on City Hall Plaza, one day before the opening match in Foxborough between Haiti and Scotland. The moment was already…

For some time, Linda Pinkow, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s excellent development director, has been encouraging our editorial staff to start including a letter at the top of our BINJ.News Weekly Newsletter where we can let readers…

The Boston City Council held a hearing last week on in-custody deaths at South Bay House of Correction, with a focus on the case of Shacoby Kenny. Kenny was a pretrial detainee held on $2,500 bail who was…

A few weeks ago, I promised BINJ.News readers that I would be writing a more in-depth article on why the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism joined 59 other independent news publishers to file a mass-action lawsuit against tech…

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #71. FOOD Food Commentary: “The Real Food Show” — The Galloping Propagandist The Arts Fuse (Somerville) OK, I’m…

We’re major fans of Massachusetts journalist and author Luke O’Neil and his Welcome to Hell World newsletter. By extension, and since we are also an experimental independent outfit, we’re super hot for Flaming Hydra, the all-star writing crew…

A few weeks ago, I promised BINJ.News readers that I would be writing a more in-depth article on why the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism joined 59 other independent news publishers to file a mass-action lawsuit against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft for taking large numbers of our copyrighted articles