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World Cup Grant Documents Indicate Lack Of Transparency On Security Spending

While state police and Boston secured tens of millions in federal grants, surrounding municipalities enduring heavy local traffic and emergency strains were denied critical funding

CHRIS FARAONE AND EAMON CORBO

It was almost two months ago that the final World Cup whistle echoed through Foxborough. In the time since FIFA’s seven successful events in the commonwealth, which spurred satellite celebrations statewide, most public dialogue about the games has…

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The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism supports the development and production of independent news—here at BINJ.News, our weekly magazine covering Boston and environs, and by syndicating our award-winning reporting to news outlets around Massachusetts and the nation.

BINJ achieves its mission by: providing organizational support to community publications; running reporting collaborations and civic engagement initiatives; training promising journalists; and producing bold independent journalism.

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BINJ At The Movies: Reflections From A Year Of Slumming It On Social Media

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

CHRIS FARAONE

We started the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism at a dreadful time for investigative reporting. Not only had the news landslide begun to erode institutions once considered teflon, but many publishers had given up on the deep and…

Editor’s Note: BINJ Has Great Supporters

Yet another big last-minute donation pulls us out of our latest funding crunch, more gifts always welcome!

JASON PRAMAS

Over the summer, careful readers may have noticed that I’ve mentioned an upcoming funding crunch on and off. That in itself wouldn’t be worthy of note given the economic crisis now faced by the entire journalism industry, nonprofit…

Opinion: Democratic Civil War Has Working Class Casualties

“We are being squeezed out by two factions, two sides of the same coin, who view power as the end in itself, and not a means to improve the lives of working people.”

MATT MCLAUGHLIN

There is a civil war within the Democratic Party. The establishment is fighting off an insurgency for the soul of the party. As with any war, the victims are everyday working people, caught between factions who claim to…

Should A Former Prosecutor Sit On The Massachusetts Parole Board?

After the Governor’s Council rejected her first pick, Gov. Maura Healey makes a second push for a former prosecutor, sparking fierce pushback from advocates

JEAN TROUNSTINE

UPDATE (Aug. 12): On Aug. 12, the Governor's Council voted to approve the nomination of Kaityln O'Leary to the Parole Board in a 6-2 vote. Voting in the affirmative were Councilors Civil, Dolan, Ferreira, Iannella, Kennedy and Ziegler.…

The Muslim Justice League And A National Week Of Action Against ALPRs In Mass

Interview: MJL Director Fatema Ahmad discusses the decades of surveillance leading up to the growing mass movement against Flock Safety

BINJ ONLINE

The Muslim Justice League has been active around Greater Boston for about a decade. As Executive Director Fatema Ahmad describes its mission, the organization “focuses on everything that's come out of the war on terror, which we're in…

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The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold investigative reporting that challenges powerful interests and lifts up the voices of marginalized people. BINJ publishes high-quality journalism by experienced reporters as well as talented and highly motivated college students whom we train and mentor. Our reporting and analysis fills the gaps left by the mainstream media in Greater Boston and throughout Massachusetts, focusing on prisons, policing, surveillance, housing, the environment, arts, media and other critical issues facing our city and state.