Opinion

IndyMass: March 27, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #56. ARTS Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “The Last Savage” Finds Wit and Warmth in Menotti’s Madcap Satire The Arts Fuse (Somerville) A work by the “populist” mid-20th-century librettist Gian Carlo

JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026

Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors To Support Our Intern Program

For several months, at the suggestion of Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Board President Felicia Sullivan—who has deep experience in such matters—BINJ Development Director Linda Pinkow has been leading our search for educational and vocational training grants that we can use to fund our truly large reporting intern program. However,

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2026

More Antiwar Culture Is Needed To Build A Powerful Antiwar Movement

In a BINJ.News editorial last week, I found myself doing a fast analysis of the various factions I see that are for or against the US and Israeli war on Iran. My purpose was to invite people active in those factions to send in opinion articles reviewing why they have

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026

IndyMass: March 13, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #55. CIVIL LIBERTIES Lexington Chamber of Commerce moves fundraiser location due to ICE ties The Lexington Observer Turns out the old school Cafe Escadrille restaurant in Burlington is owned by

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026

Editorial: BINJ.News Seeks Opinion Articles From Iran War Street Protest Groups

On the latest episode of our weekly BINJ Live show on YouTube, Chris Faraone and I unpacked our thinking about covering various actions against the Iran War around Massachusetts being something we can reasonably do as local news publishers with no “boots on the ground” in any countries directly affected

JASON PRAMAS March 5, 2026

Gov. Healey Should Bet On Beneficial Tech, Not So-Called ‘AI’

Perhaps I’d be less concerned about Gov. Maura Healey’s recent cheerleading for so-called “AI” if she would join a growing camp of experts in dropping the PR misnomer “artificial intelligence” when describing evolutionary improvements in dozens of areas of computing technology. Tech which does many discrete things—some very well, some

JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026

IndyMass: February 27, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #54. ARTS Somerville gets a cabinet-level arts czar in addition to a new leader for Arts Council in mayor’s plan Cambridge-Somerville Independent My first post from the newest news outlet

JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026

Editorial: BINJ Is In Great Shape … Until Late June

You’d think I wouldn’t be in fundraising mode in mid-February. At the moment, by our modest standards at least, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is doing fine. We raised $100,000 during our annual year-end fundraiser. Our new website and new database system are helping all our output from our

JASON PRAMAS February 20, 2026

IndyMass: January 29 and February 12, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #52 and #53. ARTS Art collectors flock to Ipswich bookshop for mini-print vending machine The Local News (Ipswich) Twenty-year-old hipster trend makes it to the outer burbs at last. EDUCATION

JASON PRAMAS February 12, 2026