
Grassroots network of researchers and frontline medical workers publicizes hard data on the ongoing coronavirus crisis; encourages political activism for science-based public health policy
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Grassroots network of researchers and frontline medical workers publicizes hard data on the ongoing coronavirus crisis; encourages political activism for science-based public health policy
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics
Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
[W]e’re asking all journalists, journalism educators, journalism students, media reform activists, and DigBoston readers who agree that the state journalism commission should be created to call your Mass state senator today and ask him/her to tell Sens. Eric Lesser (D - Longmeadow), Michael Rodrigues (D - Somerset), and Patrick O'Connor (D - Weymouth), who are on the conference committee, to keep the journalism commission in the final economic development bill.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
[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.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
What issues are most important to you? Do you want to take on a big fight like getting Trump and his rogue’s gallery of white nationalists out of power?
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Fighting for civil rights before, during, and after Inauguration Day
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
As long as the new Republican administration remains somewhere within the bounds of traditional American politics, there is a lot of room for the full panoply of transformative social movements to maneuver.
Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials
'This was before the first 10,000-person rally, this was before the first 5,000-person rally, this was before the first rally.'