IndyMass: December 19, 2025
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! CULTURE ‘People Just Don’t Know Filipinos’ Sampan (Boston) Love seeing former BINJ interns published in other area news outlets (even when, in this case, the intern wrote for the outlet in question before working with us lol)! […]
Editor’s Note: This One’s For BINJ’s Longtime Donors
I’m usually in production every Thursday for our weekly Friday email blast to the 10,000 people who get our BINJ.News newsletter. And in-between editing and publishing articles from our growing crew of reporters, younger and older, I always have to make time for writing my own pieces. So I had just been cycling through a […]
Mass Indie Comic Expo Keeps Comics Trans, Black, and Educated
BOSTON – The Boston Comic Arts Foundation hosted its 16th Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo on Dec. 6 and 7 at Boston University featuring over 200 artists and writers, as well as several special guests. Jules Zuckerberg, an illustrator, cartoonist and zinemaker, tabled at MICE for the first time after spending years going to small press […]
When It Comes To Mass Surveillance, We Are Totally Flocked
Cambridge ended its contract with a controversial vendor, but the people of Massachusetts are still being watched
Josh Safdie Defends Film School, Sort Of
BOSTON – “Nobody wants your films to exist,” Boston University alumnus Josh Safdie told an auditorium filled with BU film students Friday afternoon. Ahead of the Coolidge Corner premiere of his new film “Marty Supreme,” Safdie returned to the BU campus for a conversation moderated by the Chair of the Department of Film and Television, […]
‘The Earth Is Really Hurting, And We Can Do Something About It.’
BOSTON – The specter of silent, red-robed figures walking around Long Wharf, faces a ghostly white, stunned Gwendolen Noyes, her hands outstretched in agony. “I was thunderstruck … they just hit me, and I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” said Noyes, a housing engineer who lives in Cambridge. This was Noyes’s first time […]
Meet The Massachusetts Advocate Challenging The Opioid Recovery Establishment
“The systems that refuse to evolve, that cling to nearly 100-year-old faith-based pseudoscience … are a huge part of why we can’t seem to solve this problem”
Editor’s Note: Help BINJ Improve Our Internship Program
My Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I are not shy about singing the praises of our reporting interns whenever we have the chance. But after running our internship program for over eight years, even we are shocked at how talented our current crew of interns is … […]
Media Farm: Remembering Jeff Lawrence, Co-Founder Of Dig Publishing
Jeff trusted and believed in oddballs in ways that nobody else in our lives had ever believed in us, and probably more than he should have
Salem Police May Have Requested Federal Anti-Terrorism Monitoring At Pro-Palestine Encampment
The department also planned for the possibility of mass arrests, but won’t confirm the surveillance request