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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

EDITORIAL: SHIRA LAUCHAROEN SAYS GOODBYE

After a wonderful year serving Somerville, the reporter begins new steps Ever since I began my work as assistant director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, I knew that I should be prepared for the unexpected. This local news project, the Somerville Wire, a publication of BINJ’s Somerville News

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN April 12, 2022
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KAT POWERS AND JASON PRAMAS

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Somerville Media Center and BINJ join forces to create municipal foundation to support nonprofit community journalism There can be no democracy at any level without strong journalism produced in the public interest. Yet here in Somerville, as in communities across the nation, we are on the verge of losing our

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KAT POWERS AND JASON PRAMAS April 5, 2022
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JASON PRAMAS

EDITORIAL: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism Nearly three years ago, after hosting a community forum on the crisis in local journalism attended by 115 residents of Somerville,

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JASON PRAMAS March 22, 2022
BINJ 2021 Holiday Fundraiser a Success!
JASON PRAMAS

BINJ HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS

Raised over $40,000 thanks to our many supporters–and the work of our staff, board, journalists, and volunteers Finding funding for producing—or training people to produce or generally trying to “save”—journalism at the state and local level is no picnic. In the nearly seven years since Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and

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JASON PRAMAS January 12, 2022
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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.

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BINJ ONLINE November 29, 2021
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JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS November 3, 2021
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SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF

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

An event for Somerville, MA residents only

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SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF October 8, 2021
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SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF

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

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

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SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF May 14, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

JULIA TALIESIN TO LEAVE THE SOMERVILLE JOURNAL

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

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN May 11, 2021
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JASON PRAMAS

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.

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JASON PRAMAS February 23, 2021
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