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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
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
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

EDITORIAL: SHIRA LAUCHAROEN SAYS GOODBYE

After a wonderful year serving Somerville, the reporter begins new steps Ever since I began my work as assistant director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, I knew that I should be prepared for the unexpected. This local news project, the Somerville Wire, a publication of BINJ’s Somerville News

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN April 12, 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
Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)
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
Lynne Doncaster speaking to Somerville News Garden event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

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JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019
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