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IndyMass: November 6, 2025

A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State!

ECONOMY
“There’s a lot of money in death”: Funeral home consolidation hits western Mass
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Ace BINJ reporter Jonathan Gerhardson, as seen in BINJ Live #8 this week, just had penned this great investigative piece for our colleagues to the west.

NONPROFIT
Local nonprofit stands strong against Trump admin. anti-DEI policies
The Flipside (Boston)
Profile of an NGO that made lemonade out of lemons against tough political headwinds.

POLITICS
Election night notebook dump
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Wootown lefties gain a councilor and lose a councilor in tough election fights: “What we’re left with is two progressives, two centrists and seven cranks. We went from the losing position of 8-3 to the even more losing position of 9-2.”

PRINT!
Print edition: November 5, 2025
The Local News (Ipswich)
I just think it’s awesome that any nonprofit news outlet still has a print operation these days. Check out the pdf version!

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Jason Pramas is the executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. He is also editor-in-chief of BINJ's independent weekly magazine BINJ.News and executive director of the Somerville Media Fund.
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