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Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation Is a Real Victory for Working Families

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 25, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Image by Jason Pramas

Now we need to debunk Republican propaganda claiming the opposite and move on to win real higher-education reform

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: America, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Column, corporation, debt cancellation, Democracy, Democrat, federal, government, higher education, Jason Pramas, President Joe Biden, public, reform, Republican, strategy, student loan, taxes, US, usa, working class, working families

POOR PROTEST COVERAGE SHOWS NEED FOR MASS JOURNALISM COMMISSION

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 4, 2021 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image courtesy of Extinction Rebellion Boston

Environmental zap action in front of Gov. Baker’s Swampscott home gets lots of attention with little useful context due to shrinking local press corps

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, analysis, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Climate Change, Column, communication, criticism, Democracy, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislation, legislature, Massachusetts, media, news, press, Protest, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, reporting, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Sunrise Movement, Swampscott, transparency, website

LAW ENFORCEMENT LIMBO

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted June 1, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Officers reject inevitable basic reforms, reality, from BPD to DOC to Cape Cod

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: George Floyd, Homeland Security, Police, reform

THERE’S A CURE FOR AMAZON’S SNAP ABUSE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 23, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

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The labor movement needs to fight harder for justice for gig workers

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: activist, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Benefits, Column, contingent, contractor, day labor, Democracy, Employment, gig, independent contractor, Jason Pramas, job, labor, legislation, organize, part time, policy, precarious, PRO Act, reform, regulation, temp, union, wages, worker, working conditions

OFFICIALS, ADVOCATES SPEAK ON IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 20, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

At a virtual summit, leaders sought to educate and engage on the need for change.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ayanna Pressley, economic recovery, Ed Markey, immigration, reform

MARCHING SEASON: JOIN THE RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 23, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Throwback screenshot via WBZ from the '90s. When TV reporters like Liz Walker still covered housing justice.

 

Mass State House, Oct 29, noon-1:30 pm

 

Twenty-five years after the real estate industry destroyed rent control in Massachusetts, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Ben Simon, Boston, Boston Democratic Socialists of America, Boston DSA, California, Column, Democracy, DSA, Gov Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Housing, Jason Pramas, justice, Massachusetts, massachusetts state house, New York, Oregon, Protest, rally, reform, rent control, Rep. Mike Connolly, Rep. Nika Elugardo

SECOND HEARING ON MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION BILL A SUCCESS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 18, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass State House dome, Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass. Intense HDR. www.joiseyshowaa.com

 

Over 80 journalists, journalism students, and professors answer DigBoston’s call to turn out

 

Amazingly, I’m on my first real vacation in four years this week. But I think it’s important to pen a truncated version of my usual column to thank the 80 plus people (about half of whom were journalism students… yay!) who showed up for the July ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, communication, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Ed Coppinger, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

GIVE MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS TO WORKING JOURNALISTS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 10, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

This week, I joined fellow journalists, journalism educators, and members of the public at large in testifying on a bill to form a Mass journalism commission that is currently before the state legislature. In view of the potential importance of the initiative, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, bill, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, communication, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, journalism department, journalist, labor, legislature, Massachusetts, NABET, NewsGuild, public college, reform, Rep. Ed Coppinger, SAG-AFTRA, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, Society of Professional Journalists, testimony, transparency, union

NO MASS COMMISSION TO STUDY JOURNALISM WITHOUT REPORTER INPUT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 8, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

Between the countless white papers already in existence and the obvious reality on the ground that any reporter who has been in the game for more than a year can tell you about, there is already more than enough information to start planning ways to reverse the destruction that the likes of leeches such as Gatehouse Media have wrought in Mass.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

SECOND HEARING CALLED ON MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION BILL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 19, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

After some fast action by your pals at DigBoston and BINJ

 

Almost immediately after rising on Monday, I knew that I wasn’t going to have a normal start to my week. Production on DigBoston commences over the weekend for my colleagues ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

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