Celebrating the simultaneous anniversaries of the Hub’s most independent news outlets As I’ve written on numerous occasions, Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I run two very different enterprises simultaneously: an independent alternative weekly newspaper, DigBoston; and an incubator dedicated to producing longform investigative reporting, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ). We’re experimenting […]
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APPARENT HORIZON: INTRODUCING #BINJBADBOSS
Boss screwing you over? Drop a dime online.
TIME TO BINJ: INTRODUCING THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM
We are not establishing from scratch or staffing yet another mill to feed the hourly news cycle and rat race.
HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS ON GIVING TUESDAY
We’d like to encourage you to support journalism in the public interest in Massachusetts by donating whatever you can to BINJ. With your help we can produce strong investigative reporting that “afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted,” and reestablish the local news organizations that can guarantee democracy remains strong in the Commonwealth for decades to come.
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE QUIET ONE
40 years ago this month, Fred Clay was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. After 38 years behind bars, he’s telling his story and writing another chapter.
HOW DO YOU COUNTER A VIOLENT RACIST BENT ON DESTROYING INTERCOMMUNAL SOLIDARITY? WITH MORE INTERCOMMUNAL SOLIDARITY.
For their part, members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community were surprised that a group had come all the way from Boston just to support them during this difficult weekend.
PASSENGERS AT RISK ON GREYHOUND, OTHER BUS LINES
No way to contact management in the event of driver medical or psychiatric emergency My wife had a meeting in New York City over the weekend, as is sometimes the case, and decided to take a bus back to Boston on Sunday evening. Over our many years together, we have found that buses […]
MUSIC SPECIAL: ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40
Here, five individuals associated with RAR share their memories of Boston back then, what they gained from having RAR in their lives, and how, in 2019, we can continue to honor the groundwork RAR laid for a better Boston.
DEESCALATING THE HARVARD CRIMSON BOYCOTT
Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard student […]
SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT
Seeks more participation from Somerville residents It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the Somerville Media Center to organize an event asking Somervillians what kind of coverage was missing from their city’s remaining news media. The February 2019 Somerville Community Summit ultimately attracted 115 […]
