editorial Archives

Editor’s Note: Happy Holidays!

On behalf of the entire Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism staff, board, and “intern army, ” I send our best wishes for a happy holiday and a most excellent new year to all our readers. As journalists, we may often report the worst, but know that we always hope for

JASON PRAMAS December 27, 2025

Editor’s Note: This One’s For BINJ’s Longtime Donors

I’m usually in production every Thursday for our weekly Friday email blast to the 10,000 people who get our BINJ.News newsletter. And in-between editing and publishing articles from our growing crew of reporters, younger and older, I always have to make time for writing my own pieces. So I had

JASON PRAMAS December 18, 2025

Editor’s Note: Help BINJ Improve Our Internship Program

My Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I are not shy about singing the praises of our reporting interns whenever we have the chance. But after running our internship program for over eight years, even we are shocked at how talented our current

JASON PRAMAS December 12, 2025

Editor’s Note: Why Support BINJ?

Anyone that’s read me asking for donations for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism over the years will have seen me mentioning certain themes over and over. I often stress the importance of journalism to a democratic society, for example. I effuse about the fine work that our “intern army”

JASON PRAMAS December 4, 2025

Editor’s Note: Give To BINJ

With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s only four days until the “holiday” that every nonprofit leader (who I know, anyway) dreads: “Giving Tuesday.” It has only been 13 years since one Henry Timms of the 92nd Street Y in New York City created a marketing gimmick meant to spark a “global

JASON PRAMAS November 28, 2025

Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors

Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals

JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2025

Editorial: BINJ.News Replaces HorizonMass

Since August, my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I have been alerting our growing audience to the fact that we decided the title of our independent weekly news magazine needed to take advantage of our better-known 10-year-old brand name BINJ. So we

JASON PRAMAS November 1, 2025