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…
Protesters rallied outside South Bay House of Correction last Friday, calling again for justice in the December killing of Shacoby Kenny. (Read prior BINJ coverage here). Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner’s office…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
