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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

ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT

Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis

JASON PRAMAS March 21, 2020

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN MOVING FORWARD

Launching new programs to help revive local journalism It has been just over a year since my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and DigBoston colleagues and I organized the Somerville Community Summit to give area residents a chance to speak for two minutes each to 15 journalists about what

JASON PRAMAS March 4, 2020

THE MOST READ BINJ FEATURES OF 2019

It’s important to celebrate the stories that really caught the attention of the public, in some cases not just in Greater Boston but far away from our home base as well.

BINJ ONLINE December 26, 2019