DigBoston Archives

Media Farm: Remembering Jeff Lawrence, Co-Founder Of Dig Publishing

Jeff trusted and believed in oddballs in ways that nobody else in our lives had ever believed in us, and probably more than he should have

CHRIS FARAONE December 12, 2025

The 20-Year Anniversary Of A Legendary Dig Cover

“A guy from Southie called me up, and he was just fuckin’ furious; Screaming at me that this cover is the worst thing that’s ever happened in Boston.” I was on our weekly BINJ livestream earlier this week, showing off some of the items that we will be auctioning off

CHRIS FARAONE October 9, 2025

DigBoston box among the boxes of defunct newspapers in Union Square, Somerville. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 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

JASON PRAMAS April 19, 2022

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

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.

JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020

WHAT ARE WE MISSING? JOIN US FOR A PANEL ABOUT MEDIA COVERAGE OF POLICE VIOLENCE

What well-documented history is often left out? And why?

BINJ ONLINE July 3, 2020

Lynne Doncaster speaking to Somerville News Garden event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT

Seeks more participation from Somerville residents It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the Somerville Media Center to organize an event asking Somervillians what kind of coverage was missing from their city’s remaining news media. The February 2019 Somerville Community

JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART II

AG Healey should form independent commission to investigate the failed agreement Last week in the first installment of this two-part column, I ran through the many problems with the January 2016 deal between General Electric, the city of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has now collapsed for

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 has crashed to Earth a bit over three years later.

JASON PRAMAS February 28, 2019

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019