This Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism archives section houses every article and organizational update published at binjonline.org and binj.news since our organization’s launch in 2015—including every article syndicated via BINJ’s MassWire news service until August 2023 and every article syndicated via BINJ’s Somerville Wire news until the Somerville Media Fund became its nonprofit sponsor in February 2023.
All articles syndicated via MassWire, including everything produced at BINJ’s HorizonMass magazine website, after August 2023 and via Somerville Wire between February 2023 and February 2024 (when it ceased publication) can be found on those respective websites. The full archives of the original run (September 2015 to March 2023) of Jason Pramas’ column “Apparent Horizon” can be found at jasonpramas.work. The second run (July 2024 to present) of “Apparent Horizon” can be found at the HorizonMass site.
The archive of former major BINJ projects can be found here.
NEW BINJ COLLABORATION WITH INVISIBLE INSTITUTE
The lack of comprehensive employment history data in Massachusetts is driven home by the launch of a data tool for exactly that information from 17
APPARENT HORIZON RETURNS, COLUMN RUNS ON COUNTERPUNCH
Latest piece is on how for a growing number of people, global warming is already a serious and worsening health threat
VILLAIN FROM BINJ FEATURE MAKES MEDIA ROUNDS
“Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout appears on far-right American radio show
NOW ARRIVING: A MAJOR MBTA DOCUMENT DUMP
BINJ receives critical MBTA safety documents after successfully appealing agency’s public records request denial
RESEARCHING THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR’S COUNCIL
New series by Jean Trounstine includes original data set on Massachusetts judicial appointments culled from hundreds of paper files
BINJ IMPUGNS NO-BID CONTRACT PROPOSED FOR DAVID ORTIZ-TIED BIZ
A feature that involves one of the great Boston pro sports heroes of modern time, plus is squarely in line with a realm of reporting
WHY WE CANCELED OUR LONG-PLANNED BOSTON OLYMPICS POSTMORTEM EVENT
Instead of using BINJ resources on this panel, we want to redirect the energy, and hope that many of you join our new group
BINJ REPORTER LEADING PSYCHEDELICS COVERAGE IN MASS
Benzinga, Double Blind, and others follow up on Jack Gorsline’s reporting on the upcoming Bay State ballot initiative
INTRODUCING GARBAGE RAIL KIDS
New project by BINJ distributes trading cards examining deteriorating MBTA and culture of wasteful spending at Greater Boston’s public transit agency
EFF AMPLIFIES CELL-SITE SIMULATOR INVESTIGATION
BINJ article provided “some of the most comprehensive information about modern CSS that the public has had access to in years.”
NIYA DOYLE PIECE ON JOURNALISM RUNS IN EDITOR & PUBLISHER
BINJ intern asks, “Is journalism just a rich kid’s hobby?”
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How The Matriarchs Of Monrovia Stopped The Mayhem ←Click here to go back to Part V: Diamonds & Guns Exhausted from war, a unified group of Liberian
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
The Charles Taylor Rogues’ Gallery ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone Taylor made fortunes colluding with ex-CIA Agent Roger D’Onofrio Ruggiero. According
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
Liberia: A Brief History, From Founding To Independence ←Click here to go back to Introduction The United States and Liberia share a history unlike any other nations,
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Bill Russell’s Rubber Plantation ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone In 1959, a titan of the Boston Garden’s parquet floor and
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EPILOGUE ‘The Only One We Never Got Back’ ←Click here to go back to Part VI: Diamonds & Guns After the battles, the presidency, the trials,
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PART VI The Hague & The Plague ←Click here to go back to Part V: Diamonds & Guns Back in lockup, Thomas DeVoll said the guards
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PART V Diamonds & Guns ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone In the wake of another full-scale NPFL massacre in the
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PART IV Firestone & Brimstone ←Click here to go back to Part III: Beyond the Breakout A former Plymouth corrections supervisor recalled shooting the shit with
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PART III Beyond the Breakout ←Click here to go back to Part II: Purgatory in Plymouth Charles Taylor’s internment in international limbo was a quarry-sized quandary
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PART II Purgatory in Plymouth ←Click here to go back to Part I: The Education of Charles Taylor Built on a 200-acre farm southwest of downtown
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The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war
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PART I The Education of Charles Taylor ←Click here to go back to Introduction Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was born to poor parents in a
CAMBRIDGE UNHOUSED
Introducing Cambridge Unhoused Why are we blanketing one Massachusetts city in particular with focused housing crisis coverage this winter? By Chris Faraone, BINJ Editorial Director