The road to the World Cup is paved with promises and press releases. For well over a year before the first kickoff of the most recent tournament in June, FIFA and its hosts published a dizzying amount of…


The road to the World Cup is paved with promises and press releases. For well over a year before the first kickoff of the most recent tournament in June, FIFA and its hosts published a dizzying amount of…

"Either they don't have people with the right expertise in charge of this process, making very embarrassing bumbles, or you literally are trying to circumvent the process." For more than a year, the Massachusetts Department of Correction has…

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets For those of you who didn’t notice—and you can be forgiven for that considering there’s been very little coverage of the matter in question thus far—the bill…

PHOTOS & VIDEO BY JORDAN FRIAS Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his latest dispatches from the field show the movements of public…

Photo courtesy of Carmen Lamarche This article was produced by our partners at El Planeta and translated into English by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. A Spanish version can be found here. Massachusetts residents over 75 years…

Elijah Patterson flashes an activist icon on screen share during testimony at Friday’s DOC hearing while DOC attorney Heidi D. Handler looks on | Photo courtesy of Jean Trounstine More than 100 people would have attended the three-and-a-half…

Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*