In New Era For Reproductive Rights In Mass, Same Old Pro-Life Protests Continue
Inside the daily clash on Commonwealth Avenue, where past trauma meets new legislation, and two opposing groups fight to control the atmosphere outside a Massachusetts clinic.
Editor’s Note: Now Accepting Applications for the BINJ Fall Internship Cohort
It’s that time again! Are you a young journalist looking for more experience? Then apply to join the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s Fall Internship Cohort today! Program Basics The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Internship Program works with university students at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as people out of school (with […]
IndyMass: August 7 & August 21, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #65 and #66. ARTS Arts Feature: The Museum of Modern Renaissance — The Urgency of Preserving a Living Work of Art The Arts Fuse (Somerville) Two immigrant artists who created a highly unusual museum in […]
Video: Demonstrators At South Bay Call For Justice In Shacoby Kenny Killing
The latest on the escalating situation in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department
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.*
Editor’s Note: BINJ Has Great Supporters
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 or for profit. For an independent newsroom like BINJ, going broke periodically—and soldiering on despite that fact—is […]
Opinion: Democratic Civil War Has Working Class Casualties
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 fight for them but are in fact causing the suffering. This is no different in the Second […]
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
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
Editor’s Note: BINJ.News Launching New Newsletter Format
Pretty wild that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is about to start the fourth year of publishing our weekly newsletter next week! And my BINJ colleagues and I figured that milestone would be a perfect excuse to give it a new look and feel—since we’re moving over to MailChimp from another platform for our […]