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How Tech Giants Are Harming News Outlets Like HorizonMass And BINJ

But our fans can help us survive by, yes, actually reading our articles (and sharing them)

JASON PRAMAS August 7, 2025

Celebrating 10 Years Of BINJ

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s first decade has been an incredible roller-coaster ride, but Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow, and I look forward to the challenges to come It’s truly wild that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism just turned 10 years old. Although ace journalist Chris Faraone

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2025

Collage of a young Jason Pramas overlaid over a photo of Out of Town News in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Out Of Town News And Me

My brief and tumultuous tenure working at the famed Harvard Square newsstand was nothing if not formative

JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2025

Collage with gold dollar sign dripping blood over a green background.

10 Exhibit Ideas For The Museum Of American Finance

On May Day, “the other workers’ holiday,” some public-spirited programming suggestions for the incoming Boston attraction

JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2025

A recent rally in support of Rümeysa Öztürk at Somerville City Hall.

Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2025

Large crowd outside of Skinner and Eddy employment office. The shipyard workers struck two weeks before the Seattle General Strike on Feb. 6, 1919.

General Strikes Are Now Mainstream In Massachusetts

Big ups for Rep. McGovern and Jon Keller discussing what was once undiscussable in Bay State media, but a few historical corrections are in order

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2025

African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025

Propaganda By Democrats Is Still Propaganda

The Massachusetts left cannot build a new grassroots movement for democracy based on blue falsehoods and misdirections

JASON PRAMAS February 20, 2025

THE DOCKWORKERS’ FIGHT IS EVERYONE’S FIGHT

If union members can’t stop automation from taking their jobs, what chance do the rest of us have?

JASON PRAMAS October 3, 2024

The map you got in your college welcome packet. Collage by Jason Pramas. "Boston ONS Neighborhoods" map by Goran tek-en, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

WELCOME TO BOSTON, NEW COLLEGE STUDENTS!

(Run.)

JASON PRAMAS September 5, 2024