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Hey there goes BINJ Editorial Director Chris Faraone hitting open mics around town prepping for Saturday's 10-Year Anniversary Roast in #Cambridge (Nov. 8 from 2-4pm)

More info and tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/roa...

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Editorial: BINJ.News Replaces HorizonMass | BINJ Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism renames our weekly magazine, launches our new consolidated website, and starts our big annual fundraiser today!

Editorial: BINJ.News Replaces HorizonMass. Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism renames our weekly magazine, launches our new consolidated website, and starts our big annual fundraiser today! binj.news/2025/11/01/e... #journalism #BostonMA

BINJ Live #7 with featured guest C. Scott Morris and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas YouTube video by BINJ

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is C. Scott Morris, Boston-based reporter! We'll be discussing his recent BINJ article on #SomervilleMA #immigrants' struggle to access social services! On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/sj8bazc...

Late Legal Challenge To Somerville’s Question 3 Remains Unresolved With Early Voting About To Start After the Somerville Elections Commission rejected an opposition group’s challenge in that venue, the group took its fight to kill the question to a Woburn court

Late Legal Challenge To Somerville’s Question 3 Remains Unresolved With Early Voting About To Start: After the Somerville Elections Commission rejected an opposition group’s challenge in that venue, the group took its fight to kill the question to a Woburn court horizonmass.news/2025/10/27/l...

Editor’s Note: Our Last Week As HorizonMass New BINJ news brand to launch next week … just in time for our big annual fundraiser!

Editor’s Note: Our Last Week As HorizonMass. New BINJ news brand to launch next week … just in time for our big annual fundraiser! horizonmass.news/2025/10/23/e... #journalism #news #Boston #Massachusetts

BINJ Live #6 with featured guest Jordan DelFiugo and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas YouTube video by BINJ

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is Jordan DelFiugo, a BINJ reporter! We'll be discussing her recent BINJ article on proposed #Boston Public Schools exam school admission changes! On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/tqA4aEg... #education

Boston Palestine Film Festival Returns, Filling Cinemas With Humor, History And Identity Check out screenings at several local venues Oct.17-26

Boston #Palestine #Film Festival Returns, Filling Cinemas With Humor, History And Identity: Check out screenings at several local venues TODAY to Oct 26 horizonmass.news/2025/10/15/b... #Boston

All Out For The Boston ‘No Kings’ Rally This Saturday Numbers in America’s streets, on the regular, are what’s needed to defeat Trump’s “Antifa” nonsense ... and drive the hard right out of government

All Out For The #Boston ‘No Kings’ Rally This Saturday: Numbers in America’s streets, on the regular, are what’s needed to defeat Trump’s “Antifa” nonsense … and drive the hard right out of government. The latest from @jasonpramas.bsky.social horizonmass.news/2025/10/16/a... #politics #NoKingsRally

Boston Protest Legend Rob Potylo Detained By ICE In Oregon

The performer also known as Robby Roadsteamer was reportedly released about an hour later

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Publicly Funding Grocery Stores Doesn’t Make Them Socialist Dog whistle Herald banner headline is a classic example of the kind of news practice that has divided our nation

Publicly Funding Grocery Stores Doesn’t Make Them Socialist: Dog whistle Herald banner headline is a classic example of the kind of news practice that has divided our nation horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/p... #journalism #criticism #BostonHerald #Boston

Proposed #BPS Exam School Admissions Changes Would Affect Minority And Low-Income Students 

Among other adjustments, Boston would see one-fifth of seats reserved for the highest-scoring students citywide, regardless of family income level

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BINJ Live #5 with featured guest Mary Randoph and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas YouTube video by BINJ

TONIGHT at 7 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is Mary Randolph, a BINJ reporter! We'll be discussing her recent BINJ article on how tree density relates to income in Boston's neighborhoods! On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/dl-xXov... #environment

New reporting on #Massachusetts #Opioid Settlement Funds ...

Features by Jacob Schles and Chris Faraone are supported by the Data-Driven Reporting Project (DDRP) at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism

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#OpioidCrisis

Somerville Kills Big Money Bid To Remove Boycott Measure From Ballot A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot

Somerville Kills Big Money Bid To Remove Boycott Measure From Ballot: A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/s... #politics #SomervilleMA #Gaza #democracy

BINJ Live #4 with featured guest Linda Pinkow and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas The new regular live stream by the staff of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. This week's guest is Linda Pinkow, WMBR-FM news director and BINJ development director! We'll be discussing h...

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is Linda Pinkow, WMBR news director and BINJ development director! We'll be discussing how WMBR, the community radio station, just restarted its local news show! On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/OcKTe2-...! #livestream

The latest in our series ...

No #Opioid Settlement Funds Going To #Massachusetts #Prisons

The commonwealth will receive more than a billion dollars for remediation—none of it is for the state’s most vulnerable drug-dependent population

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#OpioidCrisis

Great to see so much media activity in Cambridge ...

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Keep Protesting For Democracy Three recent high-level orders make it clear that the Trump administration is feeling the pressure from grassroots activists and the free press

Keep Protesting For #Democracy: Three recent high-level orders make it clear that the #Trump administration is feeling the pressure from grassroots activists and the free press. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/10/02/k... #protest #freespeech #FirstAmendment #politics

NEW FROM BINJ: Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival

New records obtained by BINJ also confirm that BPD flew a drone over this year’s Dominican Parade

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TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is longtime BINJ investigative reporter Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social ! We'll be talking about Andrew's reporting and more! On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/sWv8JsW... #journalism #livestream #interview

NEW from BINJ: While Researching The Salem Witch Trials, He Learned His Relative Was Among The Accused

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How Reddit Mods Are Hurting Indy News Outlets Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it virtually impossible for independent journalists to use the supposedly open and democratic platform to hel...

How #Reddit Mods Are Hurting Indy News Outlets: Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it tough for publications to build an audience on "the front page of the internet"—column by @jasonpramas horizonmass.news/2025/09/25/h... #journalism

A short video about our latest feature on opioid settlement funding in #Massachusetts ...

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since

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#AddictionRecovery #SubstanceUseDisorder #mapoli

BINJ Live #2 with featured guest Eliza Dewey and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas YouTube video by BINJ

Check out BINJ Live #2 at 8 p.m. ET TONIGHT featuring Eliza Dewey, a noted Boston-based investigative journalist (and now BINJ reporter!) talking about her latest article on the Mass Parole Board's problematic treatment of a dying prisoner www.youtube.com/live/K1sbeq9... #journalism #livestream

New Coverage of Opioid Settlements In Mass ...

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since ...

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Editorial: Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help

Editorial: Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment. The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help. The latest from @jasonpramas.bsky.social . horizonmass.news/2025/09/18/e... #censorship #JimmyKimmel #1stAmendment #journalism

BINJ Live with Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas (guest: Jacob Schles) YouTube video by BINJ

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our very first guest is Jacob Schles, BINJ reporter and Emerson College student! We'll be hearing Jacob's thoughts on the challenges young journalists face. On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/vnJhe2r... #journalism #livestream

Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that deescalation should be our watchword at present

Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left: A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that de-escalation should be our watchword at present. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/09/11/w... #politics #analysis #column

NEW: Did The BPD Fly A Surveillance Drone Over The Dominican Parade?

They Won’t Tell Us.

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Editorial: Elite Propaganda Operations Are Trying To Buy Off The Independent Press But BINJ’s journalism is not for sale … ever

Editorial: Elite Propaganda Operations Are Trying To Buy Off The Independent Press. But BINJ’s #journalism is not for sale … ever. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/09/04/e... #chorus