Inside BINJ

WHAT ARE WE MISSING? JOIN US FOR A PANEL ABOUT MEDIA COVERAGE OF POLICE VIOLENCE

What well-documented history is often left out? And why?

BINJ ONLINE July 3, 2020

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

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

IT’S HARD WORK BEING GREEN: CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS TALK ENVIRONMENTAL HABITS AND RESPONSIBILITY AT MARKEY TOWN HALL

“What we did in this resolution is to lay out what should happen … in every sector of the American economy. Because they can all be transformed with new technologies, with new strategies, new conservation techniques, and in a very brief period of time.”

KARINE VANN February 17, 2020

‘THE SMARTPHONE SOCIETY’ BOOK RELEASE AT HARVARD BOOK STORE (3.11)

Join author and Jacobin editorial board member Nicole Aschoff for a discussion about how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech’s own rise to ubiquity.

BINJ ONLINE February 13, 2020

MICHAEL MOORE TO TAPE LIVE PODCAST WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CHAPO TRAP HOUSE AT BINJ POP-UP NEWSROOM (SUN. 2.9)

Join Michael Moore for a live taping of his Rumble podcast with special guests Chapo Trap House.

BINJ ONLINE February 8, 2020

LOCAL VOICES NETWORK + BINJ AT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY

In the spirit of the Citizens Agenda that BINJ is using to guide our coverage in the Granite State, Local Voices Network will engage members of the public in dialogue about the issues that affect their lives (as opposed to chasing popular media narratives).

BINJ ONLINE February 4, 2020

MANCHESTER DIVIDED EVENT SCHEDULE

The Shaskeen Pub will host the BINJ pop-up newsroom and reporters from across the country from Feb. 5 – Feb. 11, and has a schedule packed with music, comedy, podcast tapings, and other events for a week of political pandemonium.

BINJ ONLINE January 27, 2020

THE MOST READ BINJ FEATURES OF 2019

It’s important to celebrate the stories that really caught the attention of the public, in some cases not just in Greater Boston but far away from our home base as well.

BINJ ONLINE December 26, 2019

BINJ 2019 REVIEW + 2020 PREVIEW

Our fourth year of operation and our first as a standalone 501(c)3 nonprofit, 2019 was a time for BINJ to mature and lay the foundation to become a much larger force in local reporting and media-focused organizing, not only in Greater Boston but across the Commonwealth and all throughout the country.

BINJ ONLINE December 26, 2019