Court Rules For Reporter In Case Where DA Used Taxpayer Money To Shield Troubled Cops
“We hope that other district attorneys will abide by this ruling if they receive similar requests in the future.”
Who Is Watching The Officials Who Select The Watchers?
How the secretive procurement teams approving hundreds of millions for Mass surveillance are incentivized to spend
Editor’s Note: BINJ Annual Fundraising Drive Was A Success!
Once again, as has been our practice for the last five years, we asked our audience to support the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism every week in November and December and a bunch of you came through. We’re still waiting for any late checks to arrive, but we already know we blew past our $50,000 […]
IndyMass: January 2, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! And, wow, this is the 50th installment of this little secondary column of mine. Tempus fugit (time flies)! HOUSING New Bedford awarded $2.5 million to help ease housing shortage The New Bedford Light Barely a drop in […]
Editor’s Note: Happy Holidays!
On behalf of the entire Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism staff, board, and “intern army, ” I send our best wishes for a happy holiday and a most excellent new year to all our readers. As journalists, we may often report the worst, but know that we always hope for the best. Peace. Jason Pramas […]
Demand For Low-Income Fuel Assistance Continues To Skyrocket
BOSTON – It’s effortless for Everett resident Luke Charles Farrell to recall the exact day his basketball career at the University of Alabama came to a halt. On Dec. 15, 1996, Farrell lost vision in his left eye when a fellow athlete elbowed Farrell’s face while attempting a slam dunk. He was forced to medically […]
Prison Brought Us Together, But Friendship Survives
This holiday season, longtime BINJ prison reporter Jean Trounstine reflects on the work that cleared her path to journalism
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 […]