Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Archives

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

JASON PRAMAS December 12, 2025

Editor’s Note: Give To BINJ

With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s only four days until the “holiday” that every nonprofit leader (who I know, anyway) dreads: “Giving Tuesday.” It has only been 13 years since one Henry Timms of the 92nd Street Y in New York City created a marketing gimmick meant to spark a “global

JASON PRAMAS November 28, 2025

Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors

Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals

JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2025

Editorial: BINJ.News Replaces HorizonMass

Since August, my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I have been alerting our growing audience to the fact that we decided the title of our independent weekly news magazine needed to take advantage of our better-known 10-year-old brand name BINJ. So we

JASON PRAMAS November 1, 2025

Editorial: HorizonMass Is Rebranding

As we start our third year of publication, we’ve decided our news outlet needs BINJ in its name

JASON PRAMAS August 14, 2025

Editorial: Public Grantmaking Can Help Mass Indy News Outlets Survive

BINJ would like to work with fellow journalists and allied organizations to convince our state legislature to give it a shot

JASON PRAMAS July 24, 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