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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

BINJ Summer Appeal!

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LINDA PINKOW June 12, 2024
CHRIS FARAONE, LINDA PINKOW, AND JASON PRAMAS

SUPPORT ALL YOUR FAVORITE CAUSES WITH ONE DONATION TODAY!

A Giving Tuesday appeal from BINJ, the nonprofit that brings you HorizonMass

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CHRIS FARAONE, LINDA PINKOW, AND JASON PRAMAS November 28, 2023
JASON PRAMAS

BINJ LAUNCHES HORIZONMASS, NEW STATEWIDE NEWS OUTLET

Digital publication run by interns, freelancers, and staff—friends old and new

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JASON PRAMAS August 17, 2023
JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLIANS DONATE $5,000 TO RESTART SOMERVILLE WIRE

Municipal news service can run for another few months, now accepting applications for a reporter gig Great news! Thanks to the 40 Somerville residents who donated the $5,000 we needed, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism has met our goal to restart publication of the Somerville Wire news service for

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JASON PRAMAS February 2, 2023
JASON PRAMAS

EDITORIAL: SOMERVILLE WIRE ON HIATUS UNTIL SPRING

BINJ Needs $15,000 to Pay a Quarter-Time Staff Reporter for a Year It has been almost four years since the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism held a well-attended community forum in the big room at (the sadly shuttered) ONCE club on Highland Ave. that led to the launch of our

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JASON PRAMAS January 13, 2023
CHRIS FARAONE AND JASON PRAMAS

SUPPORT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN MASSACHUSETTS

This #GivingTuesday, Help BINJ With a Donation—Matched Dollar for Dollar Up to $1,000 With Giving Tuesday—the unofficial holiday dedicated to donating to nonprofit organizations—upon us, we thought we should address a much broader audience than we normally do in our big annual fundraising appeal for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit

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CHRIS FARAONE AND JASON PRAMAS November 29, 2022
Broadway Bus Lanes Debate Between Michael Capuano and Chris Dwan at Somerville Media Center, November 9, 2022. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
LINDA PINKOW

WHOSE STREETS? SHARED STREETS!

Capuano-Dwan Debate at SCATV Centers on Somerville Transportation Priorities and Public Input (Somerville Wire) – Two community leaders on different sides of the Broadway bus lane controversy sat down together last week to share their divergent views on transportation, accessibility, and accountability in Somerville. The hour-long debate brought together safe

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LINDA PINKOW November 16, 2022
DigBoston box among the boxes of defunct newspapers in Union Square, Somerville. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
JASON PRAMAS

EDITORIAL: NOW EVEN LESS NEWS IN SOMERVILLE

DigBoston goes digital-only, yet another reason to donate to the Somerville Media Fund (Somerville Wire) – It’s rare that a journalist writes an editorial about an editorial, but careful readers may note that the principals of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism—Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and me—also run the commercial

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JASON PRAMAS April 19, 2022
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KAT POWERS AND JASON PRAMAS

DONATE TO THE SOMERVILLE MEDIA FUND!

Somerville Media Center and BINJ join forces to create municipal foundation to support nonprofit community journalism There can be no democracy at any level without strong journalism produced in the public interest. Yet here in Somerville, as in communities across the nation, we are on the verge of losing our

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KAT POWERS AND JASON PRAMAS April 5, 2022
Prototype "Medville Transnal" front page. Collage by Jason Pramas.
JASON PRAMAS

EDITORIAL: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism Nearly three years ago, after hosting a community forum on the crisis in local journalism attended by 115 residents of Somerville,

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JASON PRAMAS March 22, 2022
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