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THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 has crashed to Earth a bit over three years later.

JASON PRAMAS February 28, 2019

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

By 2014, it was a full-court press, with Suboxone lobbyists pushing more than 10 bills on Beacon Hill

F.I.G.H.T. February 12, 2019

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD?

Boston Herald’s attack on MassHousing highlights double standard in American journalism

JASON PRAMAS February 6, 2019

Inscription on the Samuel Eliot Morison statue on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston

WHO I WRITE FOR: A MEDITATION

Like pretty much every journalist, I think about who I am writing for* from time to time. Most writers aren’t just sending messages into the ether, after all. Unless they are writing for therapeutic reasons. Or they are diarists. But even diarists are typically writing for some future audience they

JASON PRAMAS January 30, 2019

BROKEN MEDIA, BROKEN POLITICS

If Mass journalists were doing their jobs, Baker would not be so popular May 1, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS It’s always funny to hear that Charlie Baker is a very popular governor… The most popular governor in the country at the moment, according to polls. Because

JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2018

RETRO POP: LOOKING BACK ON TWO YEARS OF BINJ POP-UP NEWSROOMS

How our nonprofit newsroom starts its listening by popping up where people live and play When summarizing my first two years of running a nonprofit journalism shop in Boston, I often use the spot-on aphorism that necessity is the mother of invention. That’s the best way to explain how, before

CHRIS FARAONE January 30, 2018

TEMPORARY RADICALS? DISAFFECTED DEMS NEED TO STAY IN THE STREETS AFTER THE GOP MENACE IS BEATEN BACK

November 27, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There is little agreement on the broad American left. But the ascension of Donald Trump to the top of the political heap caused a virtual panic from the most conservative corporate Democrats to the hardest core anarchists and communists. Which resulted in a

JASON PRAMAS November 27, 2016

PIN THE SALE ON THE DONKEY

How BINJ kicked off the cold months with a reader engagement carnival Three months ago, the team at the BINJ decided to throw our most ambitious event yet. In the past we’ve had fundraisers at watering holes, hosted community panels on various topics, and set up pop-up newsroomsacross Boston and Cambridge — and for our second

BINJ ONLINE November 14, 2016

DEMOCRATIZE AMERICA: THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NATION AND THE PLANET DOESN’T STOP ON ELECTION DAY

November 8, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This is not a dream. For your whole life, you’ve seen images on screens showing brutal political struggles in faraway places like Ukraine and Yemen. And in the rare moments you’ve paid attention to the suffering you’ve seen, you’ve asked yourself, “How could

JASON PRAMAS November 8, 2016