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PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP

IMAGE: Sandstorm State House collage by Jason Pramas (using public domain images) More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the ground up, since so many news outlets and jobs in

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2019

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019

MORE PHYSICAL COPIES OF ‘PILGRIMS’ DROPPED IN PLYMOUTH & CAPE COD

If you are in the Plymouth or Cape Cod areas, we also just dropped more bundles at the following libraries …

BINJ ONLINE January 31, 2019

JOIN US FOR THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

The event is aimed at bringing area journalists together with Somerville residents to discuss issues and happenings that need coverage by local news media.

BINJ ONLINE January 30, 2019

ASSIST OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN SALES IN MASS

Thanks to MuckRock, we are excited to announce that you—readers, community members, reporters, anyone—can dig through all these documents along with us by simply clicking onto this portal.

CHRIS FARAONE January 12, 2019

A STORY MAP FOR YOUR NEWS ORG

With help from a team at Tufts University’s JumboCode, we built a story map for readers to find headlines geographically.

BINJ ONLINE December 18, 2018

BINJ IN NEW CHOMSKY DOC

Thanks to Noam Chomsky’s team for inviting us to be part of the nonprofit fair that preceded the 2016 taping of Internationalism or Extinction, which was filmed at the Old South Church and hosted by the great Wallace Shawn.

CHRIS FARAONE November 12, 2018

RETRO POP: LOOKING BACK ON TWO YEARS OF BINJ POP-UP NEWSROOMS

How our nonprofit newsroom starts its listening by popping up where people live and play When summarizing my first two years of running a nonprofit journalism shop in Boston, I often use the spot-on aphorism that necessity is the mother of invention. That’s the best way to explain how, before

CHRIS FARAONE January 30, 2018

#CONDEMBTA (THE RECAP)

A public conversation about transit infrastructure As regular Dig readers couldn’t have possibly missed, along with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) we asked ace photographer Derek Kouyoumjian to spend a month snapping pics of utterly dilapidated MBTA tracks, stations, and trains. His images of so much beautiful decay,

BINJ ONLINE August 2, 2017

PIN THE SALE ON THE DONKEY

How BINJ kicked off the cold months with a reader engagement carnival Three months ago, the team at the BINJ decided to throw our most ambitious event yet. In the past we’ve had fundraisers at watering holes, hosted community panels on various topics, and set up pop-up newsroomsacross Boston and Cambridge — and for our second

BINJ ONLINE November 14, 2016