Jason Pramas Archives

Elite Socialists Don’t Get It

In a recent Jacobin article, Noah Suárez-Sikes, “an organizer with the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,” criticized mainstream news outlets for gleefully outing DSA leaders who hail from backgrounds that range from upper-middle class to upper class. Dubbed “Class traitors are welcome in the socialist movement,”

JASON PRAMAS August 28, 2026

Editor’s Note: Now Accepting Applications for the BINJ Fall Internship Cohort

It’s that time again! Are you a young journalist looking for more experience? Then apply to join the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s Fall Internship Cohort today! Program Basics The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Internship Program works with university students at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as

JASON PRAMAS August 21, 2026

IndyMass: August 7 & August 21, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #65 and #66. ARTS Arts Feature: The Museum of Modern Renaissance — The Urgency of Preserving a Living Work of Art The Arts Fuse (Somerville) Two immigrant artists who created

JASON PRAMAS August 21, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Has Great Supporters

Over the summer, careful readers may have noticed that I’ve mentioned an upcoming funding crunch on and off. That in itself wouldn’t be worthy of note given the economic crisis now faced by the entire journalism industry, nonprofit or for profit. For an independent newsroom like BINJ, going broke periodically—and

JASON PRAMAS August 13, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ.News Launching New Newsletter Format

Pretty wild that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is about to start the fourth year of publishing our weekly newsletter next week! And my BINJ colleagues and I figured that milestone would be a perfect excuse to give it a new look and feel—since we’re moving over to MailChimp

JASON PRAMAS August 6, 2026

Editor’s Note: How The BINJ Internship Program Works

When we make our occasional entreaties for support from Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism readers, we often mention our “Intern Army.” We say that having dozens of reporting interns every year is one of the main ways we produce solid journalism about Boston and Massachusetts. We say that interns are

JASON PRAMAS July 30, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ’s Video Program Helps Improve Our Reach

Last summer, as my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues and I watched the number of hits on the articles on our BINJ.News website plummet due to the destruction wrought on traditional search engines by their parent companies’ turn to so-called “AI search,” in which they started simply stealing content

JASON PRAMAS July 23, 2026

IndyMass: July 2 & 23, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #63 and #64. BUSINESS Low rents in a CRA program offer expansions to Cini Coffee, Momma’s Grocery and the eco-friendly Green Tiger Cambridge Somerville Independent Interesting new Cambridge to prevent

JASON PRAMAS July 23, 2026

Yellow Skies Are Not Pretty

BOSTON – Many older environmentalists, myself included, have been trying to warn our fellow human beings about the danger of global warming since the 1980s. Back then, there were fewer signs that what the vast majority of climate scientists were already saying about the then-looming crisis would come true. Over

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2026

Editor’s Note: BINJ Turns 11!

I am pleased to announce that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism turned 11 years old this week! On June 30, 2015, Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I met at a now-long-shuttered Cambridge bar and agreed to found BINJ. We had no nonprofit organization, no staff, no board, and no

JASON PRAMAS July 2, 2026