editor's note Archives

Editor’s Note: Low-Key Fundraiser, High-Key Need

We don’t go full court press at BINJ with our annual summer appeal to readers like you. Because low-pressure conversations fit the traditional spirit of the season. But it is a serious month-long effort on our part nonetheless … because the budgetary pressure on us remains high. As we wait

JASON PRAMAS June 18, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ.News Taking Next Week Off

Yes, it’s “vacation” for me this coming week for the first time in several months … and my colleagues are insisting that I try to make it more of a real one than usual by actually giving BINJ.News the week off, too. So, we’ll publish no newsletter next Friday and

JASON PRAMAS June 4, 2026

Editor’s Note: Support The Cambridge Somerville Independent

Readers may be dimly aware that I’m releasing this note (and our accompanying BINJ.News weekly newsletter) later on Friday than I do most weeks. That’s because most of the BINJ staff and I were pleased to have been invited to table at an important event: IndieFest, a launch party and

JASON PRAMAS May 22, 2026

Editor’s Note: Welcome, BINJ Summer Intern Cohort!

Another season, another bunch of BINJ reporting interns. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our incoming summer cohort (size TBA as we’re still interviewing candidates)—already clearly another talented crew from a wildly diverse array of backgrounds, as has been typical of every group of interns since we started

JASON PRAMAS May 14, 2026

Editor’s Note: Welcome New BINJ.News Subscribers!

Well, this is a rather specific bit of editorial writing, but I thought I should thank everyone that we sign up to start receiving our weekly BINJ.News newsletter at tonight’s Boston-area premiere of “Steal this story, please!”—the new documentary about the ongoing career of noted left-wing journalist Amy Goodman—and let

JASON PRAMAS April 30, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Starts Producing Short Videos

For a long time, the staff of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism resisted making short videos to accompany our journalism. As writers and editors, we got into this trade to try to cover issues of the day in the public interest—as we often say—to be tribunes of the people,

JASON PRAMAS April 17, 2026

Editor’s Note: On Local News Day, Sign Up For the BINJ.News Newsletter!

Today is Local News Day, a new holiday of sorts being celebrated for the first time this year. Its aim is to help make the general public more aware of all the mostly small news outlets that are trying to keep local and regional journalism in the public interest going

JASON PRAMAS April 9, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Annual Fundraising Drive Was A Success!

Once again, as has been our practice for the last five years, we asked our audience to support the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism every week in November and December and a bunch of you came through. We’re still waiting for any late checks to arrive, but we already know

JASON PRAMAS January 2, 2026

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