JASON PRAMAS, Author at BINJ

Editor’s Note: BINJ’s Video Program Helps Improve Our Reach

Last summer, as my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues and I watched the number of hits on the articles on our BINJ.News website plummet due to the destruction wrought on traditional search engines by their parent companies’ turn to so-called “AI search,” in which they started simply stealing content

JASON PRAMAS July 23, 2026

IndyMass: July 2 & 23, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #63 and #64. BUSINESS Low rents in a CRA program offer expansions to Cini Coffee, Momma’s Grocery and the eco-friendly Green Tiger Cambridge Somerville Independent Interesting new Cambridge to prevent

JASON PRAMAS July 23, 2026

Yellow Skies Are Not Pretty

BOSTON – Many older environmentalists, myself included, have been trying to warn our fellow human beings about the danger of global warming since the 1980s. Back then, there were fewer signs that what the vast majority of climate scientists were already saying about the then-looming crisis would come true. Over

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2026

Editor’s Note: Half Off Again This Week

I’m taking another one of my pseudo-vacations this week—kind of half working and half not. And I’m thinking about ways to increase the ranks of BINJ’s major donors in my down time. So, if anyone has any bright ideas on where we can scare up $50,000 to $75,000 by mid-August

JASON PRAMAS July 9, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Turns 11!

I am pleased to announce that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism turned 11 years old this week! On June 30, 2015, Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I met at a now-long-shuttered Cambridge bar and agreed to found BINJ. We had no nonprofit organization, no staff, no board, and no

JASON PRAMAS July 2, 2026

The ‘Prairieland’ Verdict Is Bad News For The First Amendment

You may have heard of the “Prairieland” trial in which nine activists who participated in an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest on July 4, 2025 at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas were recently convicted on a host of extremely serious charges and eight were just sentenced to a

JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2026

Editor’s Note: Low-Key Fundraiser, High-Key Need

We don’t go full court press at BINJ with our annual summer appeal to readers like you. Because low-pressure conversations fit the traditional spirit of the season. But it is a serious month-long effort on our part nonetheless … because the budgetary pressure on us remains high. As we wait

JASON PRAMAS June 18, 2026

IndyMass: June 18, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #62. ARTS Ipswich’s Reilly Miner reflects on eight months in Cambodia The Local News (Ipswich) Interesting music diplomacy. Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A

JASON PRAMAS June 18, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ.News Taking Next Week Off

Yes, it’s “vacation” for me this coming week for the first time in several months … and my colleagues are insisting that I try to make it more of a real one than usual by actually giving BINJ.News the week off, too. So, we’ll publish no newsletter next Friday and

JASON PRAMAS June 4, 2026

IndyMass: June 4, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #61. Another quick one this time out … MEDIA “Loss of local autonomy”: With GBH, NEPM merger looming, what’s next for local public media? The Shoestring (Western Mass.) GBH is

JASON PRAMAS June 4, 2026