criticism Archives

Collage by Jason Pramas. Downloaded from BINJ's paid Canva account on August 21, 2025.

Editorial: Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left Journalism

And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse

JASON PRAMAS August 21, 2025

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

Opinion: Who Owns The City?

Reclaiming civic power from outside developers

SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER July 3, 2025

Protestor holding sign saying "I was totally paid to throw Molotovs" next to the words "This is not real."

When Big Protests Come To Massachusetts, How Can Journalists Compete With AI Disinformation?

I don’t know. And, as a journalist, I don’t like that I don’t know.

JASON PRAMAS June 12, 2025

John Harvard statue at Harvard University.

Opinion: Endowment Taxes Are A Good Idea, The Republicans’ Version Is Terrible

“Such a tax on the wealth of America’s richest universities could create huge benefits for our society (at least if the revenue is spent properly)”

LIAM RUE June 12, 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

Editorial: What Journalism Is Not

Fox News “embedding” with ICE agents in Boston was an affront to our nation’s core democratic values

JASON PRAMAS January 23, 2025

BOSTON DSA FACTION SHOULD DROP ITS CHARGES AGAINST REP. MIKE CONNOLLY

An apology would also be in order As the saying goes, “we all make mistakes.” And I think the faction of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America that has filed written charges against Rep. Mike Connolly to demand his expulsion from that chartered local of a national political organization to

JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2023

Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.

BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986 Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and

JASON PRAMAS March 14, 2023

"Pie" by Eric Ferdinand is licensed under CC-BY 2.0

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS

Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce

JASON PRAMAS July 29, 2022