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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

BINJ's Linda Pinkow addresses the May 17, 2025 New England Independent News Outlets Conference. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2025 Jason Pramas.

BINJ HOSTS LOCAL JOURNALISM STRATEGY CONFAB

The New England Independent News Outlets Conference brought together 18 publications with staffers from two foundations to discuss how to get more financial support from local and regional funders

JASON PRAMAS June 12, 2025

BINJ AWARDED $100K PRESS FORWARD GRANT

With readers’ support, funds from a new national funding initiative may help us “achieve escape velocity” at last

JASON PRAMAS October 16, 2024

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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

EDITORIAL: SOMERVILLE MEDIA FUND GIVES FIRST TWO GRANTS

Somerville Media Center and Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism get equal shares of donations raised from community members I’m pleased to report that about 20 Somervillians became the first donors to the new Somerville Media Fund this spring. Generously giving $2,330.02 to help the Fund’s initial two member news organizations—Somerville

JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2022

Somerville PD Ford Police Interceptor Utility by Jason Lawrence. CC-BY 2.0.

SUMMER VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM APPROVED

With shootings on the rise, councilors debate funding for annual regional policing initiative A state-funded grant that has been used for many years by the Somerville Police to combat youth violence was subjected to two heated discussions last week, before being approved by the City Council. The question was whether

LINDA PINKOW July 19, 2022

THE FANTASY ROBOTS OF BOSTON DYNAMICS

Image via Boston Dynamics / YouTube Relax—we’re a lot further away from an automaton takeover than you may think The MIT spinoff company Boston Dynamics has become famous from its videos on YouTube showing off its nine robot creations: Atlas, Spot, Spot-Mini, BigDog, Wildcat, LS3 (a kind of robotic mule),

GARY ZABEL March 21, 2018

LEFT BEHIND: THE PARIS ATTACKS AND THE NEED TO FUND A MASS INDEPENDENT AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA

Image by Kent Buckley November 17, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Shortly after the Paris attacks on Friday, I flipped on the TV and saw that Fox 25 was feeding Fox News live during its normal evening entertainment slot. I was not surprised to find that News Corp HQ was

JASON PRAMAS November 17, 2015