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Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

BINJ 2021 Holiday Fundraiser a Success!
JASON PRAMAS

BINJ HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS

Raised over $40,000 thanks to our many supporters–and the work of our staff, board, journalists, and volunteers Finding funding for producing—or training people to produce or generally trying to “save”—journalism at the state and local level is no picnic. In the nearly seven years since Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and

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JASON PRAMAS January 12, 2022
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JASON PRAMAS

SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM IN NOV & DEC, FIRST $10,000 MATCHED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR

Two-month Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism fundraiser to be amplified by the Institute for Nonprofit News and the Miami Foundation My message is simple this time out: Please give generously to the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in November or December at givetobinj.org—and be aware that every individual donation of

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JASON PRAMAS November 3, 2021
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JASON PRAMAS

WHAT IS THE SOMERVILLE WIRE?

BINJ staff and Somerville News Garden volunteers have not undertaken this effort to compete with existing or future news outlets in Somerville. We are simply working on creating a replicable model that cities and towns around Massachusetts and the US can use to stop their municipalities from turning into “news deserts,” in the parlance of journalism academics.

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JASON PRAMAS February 23, 2021
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BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM

JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ADVOCATES TO SUGGEST PICKS FOR MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS

A joint press release by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and Free Press Action

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BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM February 10, 2021
Laura Kiesel and Jordan Frias testify at the second journalism commission hearing, July 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of Sarah Betancourt.
JASON PRAMAS

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

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JASON PRAMAS February 7, 2021
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JASON PRAMAS

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

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JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020
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JASON PRAMAS

ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT

Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis

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JASON PRAMAS March 21, 2020
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JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN MOVING FORWARD

Launching new programs to help revive local journalism   It has been just over a year since my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and DigBoston colleagues and I organized the Somerville Community Summit to give area residents a chance to speak for two minutes each to 15 journalists about what

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JASON PRAMAS March 4, 2020
JEAN TROUNSTINE

CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW

What Mass lawmakers can learn from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country

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JEAN TROUNSTINE March 4, 2020
JOE RAMSEY

REVOLUTIONARY TOUR

In fear of losing their voices, Boston Freedom Trail guides unite and speak up (while they still can)

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JOE RAMSEY December 19, 2019
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