JASON PRAMAS, Author at BINJ

FIVE OF BINJ, THREE YEARS OF DIGBOSTON

A Wild Ride Gets Wilder… and #BlackLivesMatter This week my partners Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I mark two important anniversaries: Five years ago we founded the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and three years ago we separately acquired DigBoston. The first an innovative noncommercial organization dedicated to producing long-form

JASON PRAMAS June 12, 2020

HOW TO TALK TO YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Including a sample Q&A that you can modify for use with your own family For most of us who pay close attention to the progress of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three months, talking to our families about how to stay safe and healthy can be difficult. People don’t

JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2020

ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT

Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis

JASON PRAMAS March 21, 2020

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN MOVING FORWARD

Launching new programs to help revive local journalism It has been just over a year since my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and DigBoston colleagues and I organized the Somerville Community Summit to give area residents a chance to speak for two minutes each to 15 journalists about what

JASON PRAMAS March 4, 2020

Lynne Doncaster speaking to Somerville News Garden event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT

Seeks more participation from Somerville residents It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the Somerville Media Center to organize an event asking Somervillians what kind of coverage was missing from their city’s remaining news media. The February 2019 Somerville Community

JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2019

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME

If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2019

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

JASON PRAMAS July 4, 2019

Image by Jason Pramas using a photo by Derek Kouyoumjian.

PROPOSALS FOR THE 4/27/19 SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP MEETING

The following proposals were submitted for discussion by attendees of the Somerville Community Summit Follow-Up Meeting on Saturday, April 27 from 12-2pm at the Somerville Community Center—and to be read by interested Somerville community members who cannot attend the meeting. Anyone who would like to help work on any of

JASON PRAMAS April 26, 2019

PROPOSALS FOR SOMERVILLE

A follow-up to our April community summit

JASON PRAMAS April 26, 2019

IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

Some cause for hope in new tenant protection legislation being filed at the State House Yesterday, I saw some good news in the local press. A rarity to be sure. The Boston Globe reported that Rep. Mike Connolly and a coalition of other state legislators are about to file

JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2019