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VIDEO: THE BINJ VIRTUAL MARATHON OPEN NEWSROOM & FUNDRAISER

Below is the lineup for our first-ever BINJ Virtual Marathon Open Newsroom & Fundraiser. We’ll be streaming from Facebook and sharing across social media channels and here at binjonline.org. If you want to support our reporting and other efforts in the local independent journalism space, make a contribution at givetobinj.org.

BINJ ONLINE November 29, 2021

SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM IN NOV & DEC, FIRST $10,000 MATCHED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR

Two-month Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism fundraiser to be amplified by the Institute for Nonprofit News and the Miami Foundation My message is simple this time out: Please give generously to the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in November or December at givetobinj.org—and be aware that every individual donation of

JASON PRAMAS November 3, 2021

SOMERVILLE WIRE OPEN NEWSROOM ON HOUSING, 10/20, 7 p.m.

An event for Somerville, MA residents only

SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF October 8, 2021

Image courtesy Somerville Public Schools

AUDIO: WEEKLY WIRE — EPISODE 7 — May 14, 2021

Taliesin to leave the Somerville Journal; Schools, city officials assess trauma in youth

SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF May 14, 2021

JULIA TALIESIN TO LEAVE THE SOMERVILLE JOURNAL

The dedicated local reporter will be moving on to work for Boston.com

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN May 11, 2021

WHAT IS THE SOMERVILLE WIRE?

BINJ staff and Somerville News Garden volunteers have not undertaken this effort to compete with existing or future news outlets in Somerville. We are simply working on creating a replicable model that cities and towns around Massachusetts and the US can use to stop their municipalities from turning into “news deserts,” in the parlance of journalism academics.

JASON PRAMAS February 23, 2021

Screenshot of MA journalism commission law text

JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ADVOCATES TO SUGGEST PICKS FOR MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS

A joint press release by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and Free Press Action

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM February 10, 2021

Laura Kiesel and Jordan Frias testify at the second journalism commission hearing, July 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of Sarah Betancourt.

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

JASON PRAMAS February 7, 2021

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth.

JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020

ATTN.: ARTISTS, FREELANCE JOURNALISTS, SERVERS, AND CHELSEA RESIDENTS

We want to speak with people from other community groups as well, but for now we’re focusing on artists, service industry professionals, freelance reporters, and Chelsea residents.

BINJ ONLINE April 28, 2020