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BINJ WRITER TALKS CHARLES TAYLOR ON “THE BIG TRUTH” PODCAST

Listen to writer Nate Homan tell the story of an infamous West African warlord’s Bay State jailbreak

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM February 6, 2025

RESEARCHING THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR’S COUNCIL

New series by Jean Trounstine includes original data set on Massachusetts judicial appointments culled from hundreds of paper files

BINJ ONLINE July 26, 2024

BINJ IMPUGNS NO-BID CONTRACT PROPOSED FOR DAVID ORTIZ-TIED BIZ

A feature that involves one of the great Boston pro sports heroes of modern time, plus is squarely in line with a realm of reporting we frequently work in—state contracts.

CHRIS FARAONE July 24, 2024

BINJ REPORTER LEADING PSYCHEDELICS COVERAGE IN MASS

Benzinga, Double Blind, and others follow up on Jack Gorsline’s reporting on the upcoming Bay State ballot initiative

CHRIS FARAONE July 16, 2024

EFF AMPLIFIES CELL-SITE SIMULATOR INVESTIGATION

BINJ article provided “some of the most comprehensive information about modern CSS that the public has had access to in years.”

CHRIS FARAONE June 13, 2024

DIAMONDS & GUNS

The untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia and Sierra Leone.

NATE HOMAN January 9, 2024

DIAMONDS & GUNS

The untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia and Sierra Leone.

NATE HOMAN January 9, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war crimes since the Nazis. This is the untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

TRAGEDY STILL LINGERS OVER LAWRENCE

A Merrimack Valley Natural Gas Explosion Time Capsule Putting the extensive damage done in focus five years after a preventable fatal disaster disrupted northeast Massachusetts Research and reporting by Chris Faraone, Emilia Perez, and Sophie Yarin | Interactive timeline by Zhaozhou Dai In his comments introducing new federal emergency response

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM September 13, 2023

UNPRECEDENTED TESTIMONY

Prisoners Are Front And Center At Historic Legislative Hearing “It has been proven that these life without parole sentences aren’t improving anything in our communities and continue to cause harm to families as people are incarcerated.” The packed room at the State House on Tuesday, July 25, was not unusual.

JEAN TROUNSTINE July 31, 2023