JASON PRAMAS, Author at BINJ

BINJ’S 2023 HOLIDAY FUNDRAISING DRIVE WAS A SMASHING SUCCESS

Thanks to strong support from our amazing readers

JASON PRAMAS January 5, 2024

Stairway at Harvard University. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2023 Jason Pramas.

BINJ SEEKS PROFESSORS FOR HORIZONMASS ADVISORY BOARD

To help connect us to college leadership and brainstorm strategy

JASON PRAMAS October 27, 2023

BINJ SEEKS REPORTING, MARKETING INTERNS

Fall internship cohort to start in mid-September, apply today!

JASON PRAMAS September 8, 2023

BINJ LAUNCHES HORIZONMASS, NEW STATEWIDE NEWS OUTLET

Digital publication run by interns, freelancers, and staff—friends old and new

JASON PRAMAS August 17, 2023

BOSTON DSA FACTION SHOULD DROP ITS CHARGES AGAINST REP. MIKE CONNOLLY

An apology would also be in order As the saying goes, “we all make mistakes.” And I think the faction of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America that has filed written charges against Rep. Mike Connolly to demand his expulsion from that chartered local of a national political organization to

JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2023

Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.

BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986 Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and

JASON PRAMAS March 14, 2023

SOMERVILLIANS DONATE $5,000 TO RESTART SOMERVILLE WIRE

Municipal news service can run for another few months, now accepting applications for a reporter gig Great news! Thanks to the 40 Somerville residents who donated the $5,000 we needed, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism has met our goal to restart publication of the Somerville Wire news service for

JASON PRAMAS February 2, 2023

IF SOMERVILLIANS DONATE ANOTHER $2,420, WE CAN RESTART SOMERVILLE WIRE

An impressive $2,580 in public support came in this week. We can hire a new quarter-time reporter when we get to $5,000. In nonprofit fundraising, one is always looking for signs of public financial support. Because that’s an important way that charities like our Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism determine

JASON PRAMAS January 20, 2023

EDITORIAL: SOMERVILLE WIRE ON HIATUS UNTIL SPRING

BINJ Needs $15,000 to Pay a Quarter-Time Staff Reporter for a Year It has been almost four years since the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism held a well-attended community forum in the big room at (the sadly shuttered) ONCE club on Highland Ave. that led to the launch of our

JASON PRAMAS January 13, 2023

EDITORIAL: DONATE TO THE SOMERVILLE MEDIA FUND!

A holiday appeal to help support professional journalism from local nonprofits Somerville Media Center and Somerville Wire (Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism) It’s tough to have a democracy without professional news outlets producing the carefully curated information people need to be engaged residents of their communities week in and week

JASON PRAMAS December 7, 2022