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Video: Spare Change News And The Legacy Of Street Media

An interview with longtime Spare Change columnist and poet Marc Goldfinger

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM July 1, 2025

Video: Sustaining Nonprofit Journalism In Cambridge

A conversation with members of the Cambridge News Inc. board at the Cambridge Kiosk

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM June 29, 2025

Video: The Importance Of Local News w/ Author-Journalist Miranda S. Spivack

A conversation about town and city watchdogs, government transparency, and “Backroom Deals in Our Backyards”

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM June 29, 2025

Collage of a young Jason Pramas overlaid over a photo of Out of Town News in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Out Of Town News And Me

My brief and tumultuous tenure working at the famed Harvard Square newsstand was nothing if not formative

JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2025

BINJ PROGRAMS AT THE CAMBRIDGE KIOSK

Join us for these free community events addressing news and journalism, then and now, in Cambridge and beyond

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM June 2, 2025

COMING SOON: A BINJ TAKEOVER OF OUT OF TOWN NEWS

This spring, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism will bring programming and media installations to the reconstructed Harvard Square landmark

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM March 5, 2025

He’s been to shelters, he has a case worker, doctors will help him—but how much longer can he wait? Meet Billy, one of the many sources informing “Cambridge Unhoused,” who sells Spare Change News in Central Square

CHRIS FARAONE December 5, 2023

IN MASS, A LACK OF COORDINATION HAMPERS EFFORTS TO HELP THE UNHOUSED

“We don’t have a network of communication between the communities, so it’s very easy for people to slip through the cracks, which is not good for them.”

ADAM SENNOTT November 16, 2023

HOUSING FIRST IN MASSACHUSETTS, EXPLAINED

Studies show that permanent supportive housing works, including in Massachusetts. Here’s how it has worked so far, how it could work on a larger scale, and what’s holding it back.

COHAVIT GIL November 9, 2023

CAMBRIDGE UNHOUSED

Introducing Cambridge Unhoused Why are we blanketing one Massachusetts city in particular with focused housing crisis coverage this winter? By Chris Faraone, BINJ Editorial Director Almost everything we cover at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism ends in homelessness. Environmental injustice. Prison, re-entry, parole. The opioid epidemic. Institutional racism. The

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM November 1, 2023