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Written by CHRIS FARAONE AND JASON PRAMAS Posted November 29, 2022 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

This #GivingTuesday, Help BINJ With a Donation—Matched Dollar for Dollar Up to $1,000

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #GivingTuesday, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Faraone, donate, donation, editorial, Give, Giving Tuesday, investigative, investigative journalism, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, news, reporting, support

SUPPORT THE BOSTON HASSLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 24, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

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Help our colleagues continue to produce great arts journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, arts, Boston, Boston Hassle, Column, community, Democracy, donate, fundraising, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, reporting, solidarity

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

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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

THE PUSH TO RESCUE LOCAL NEWS IN MALDEN

Written by VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY Posted February 4, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Realistically, we cannot replace professional journalism, but we do fill in some of the gaps and provide local coverage that isn’t getting covered.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Journalism, Malden, media, news desert, reporting

EDITORIAL: DONATE TO DIGBOSTON TODAY!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 21, 2020 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update

Connect for eats, arts, news, DigBoston

Without your help, we can’t serve democracy by reporting the news

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update Tagged With: Boston, Democracy, DigBoston, donate, editorial, fundraiser, independent, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, news, reporting, support

DEAR READER: A RESOLUTION AND A THANK YOU FOR THE NEW YEAR

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

For every 50 right-wing roaches who wreak havoc on my nerves, there is only one Eileen, who just three weeks ago sent me her latest care package.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: BINJ, Christopher Hitchens, Dear Reader, Hunter S. Thompson, Journalism, Natalle Seely, Newspaper Research Journal, psychological toll of reporting, readers, reporting

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS ON GIVING TUESDAY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 3, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

Somerville News Garden "Real News" event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian.

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #GivingTuesday, appeal, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, donate, donation, fundraiser, fundraising, Give, Giving Tuesday, letter, news, reporting

CONSULTANTS TOLD STATE POLICE HOW TO AVOID TURMOIL. THE DEPARTMENT IGNORED THE ADVICE AND SPENT THE FOLLOWING DECADES SPIRALING TOWARD CORRUPTION.

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

From several dozen troopers facing criminal charges in an expansive payroll fiasco, to drunk-driving drill instructors and other one-offs, the follies continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, AMMO, attorney general, Axon, Beacon Hill, Boston Globe, BPD, Camfour, Charlie Baker, Coakley, CommBuys, Commonwealth, contacts and contracts, criminal justice, Cultural Diagnostic of the Massachusetts State Police, Dana Pullman, Deval Patrick, Ed Markey, Emerson, emerson college, Engagement Lab, Environmental Police, feature, features, Fire Sale, firearms, GOAL, gun control, gun dealers, gun laws, gun licenses, guns, Healey, history, Journalism, Jurek Brothers, karyn polito, licenses, licensing, Linder & Associates, Maine, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Mass, Mass Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Mass State Police, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Tasers, massacres, MDC Police, Michael Dukakis, MSP, MuckRock, National Rifle Association, Newtown, NRA, OCPF, ONA, Online News Association, OSD, Parkland, Paul Cellucci, pistols, Police, police militarization, reporting, reports, Republicans, Robert DeLeo, school shootings, Smith & Wesson, SPAM, state police, statistics, straw purchasing, stun guns, Taser, Tasers, Team Reporting Tagged With: AG, Virginia

EDITORIAL: HOW TO WRITE FOR DIGBOSTON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 2, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

To start the new year, I thought it would be helpful to discuss the question we get most often from our readers: “How can I start writing for DigBoston?” Our answer is simple ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: DigBoston, editorial, Jason Pramas, Journalism, pitch, reporting, write, writing

HERE IS WHAT A DAY OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM LOOKS LIKE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm

I offer an occasional column like this as a reminder that, while content may be everywhere these days, the kind of journalism we do here is different, often more cumbersome and difficult to execute, or at the very least more in the know and edgier than what you get from aggregators.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: BINJ, Boston, fundraising, Independent Media, indie media, Journalism, media, nonprofit journalism, reporting

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