Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Archives

Editor’s Note: Support The Cambridge Somerville Independent

Readers may be dimly aware that I’m releasing this note (and our accompanying BINJ.News weekly newsletter) later on Friday than I do most weeks. That’s because most of the BINJ staff and I were pleased to have been invited to table at an important event: IndieFest, a launch party and

JASON PRAMAS May 22, 2026

Editor’s Note: Welcome, BINJ Summer Intern Cohort!

Another season, another bunch of BINJ reporting interns. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our incoming summer cohort (size TBA as we’re still interviewing candidates)—already clearly another talented crew from a wildly diverse array of backgrounds, as has been typical of every group of interns since we started

JASON PRAMAS May 14, 2026

Editor’s Note: Welcome New BINJ.News Subscribers!

Well, this is a rather specific bit of editorial writing, but I thought I should thank everyone that we sign up to start receiving our weekly BINJ.News newsletter at tonight’s Boston-area premiere of “Steal this story, please!”—the new documentary about the ongoing career of noted left-wing journalist Amy Goodman—and let

JASON PRAMAS April 30, 2026

Remarks For The Alternative Press Panel At Izzy Fest 2026: Press Freedom Forum

On Tuesday, Chris Faraone and I were asked to join our colleague Brian Zayatz of the Shoestring as speakers on a panel about the alternative press by Project Censored and the Society of Professional Journalists. The text of my talk follows. It is odd to be called upon to put

JASON PRAMAS April 24, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Starts Producing Short Videos

For a long time, the staff of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism resisted making short videos to accompany our journalism. As writers and editors, we got into this trade to try to cover issues of the day in the public interest—as we often say—to be tribunes of the people,

JASON PRAMAS April 17, 2026

Editor’s Note: On Local News Day, Sign Up For the BINJ.News Newsletter!

Today is Local News Day, a new holiday of sorts being celebrated for the first time this year. Its aim is to help make the general public more aware of all the mostly small news outlets that are trying to keep local and regional journalism in the public interest going

JASON PRAMAS April 9, 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

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

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

Massive File From J6 Insurrection Trials Goes Live On Internet Archive

SAN FRANCISCO – The Internet Archive marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as one might expect: launching an upload of publicly accessible materials from the trials of 1,575 defendants who took part in the attempted overthrow of America’s government to keep President Donald

MARC LEVY January 8, 2026