NEW from BINJ: While Researching The Salem Witch Trials, He Learned His Relative Was Among The Accused horizonmass.news/202...

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 youtube.com/shorts/d...#Massachusetts #AddictionRecovery #SubstanceUseDisorder #mapoli

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 ... horizonmass.news/202...

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

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 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. horizonmass.news/202...

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

Labor Day Should Remind Bostonians Why #Trump Is Threatening To Send In The Troops: And what we can do about it. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/08/28/l... #politics #democracy #protest #analysis #Boston #LaborDay

Meet One Of The Young Advocates Advancing #Psychedelics In #Massachusetts ... With one milestone already behind him, Tim Morris says that securing “at-home cultivation” of plant medicine like #psilocybin will be “the real milestone.” horizonmass.news/202...

Amid City And State Failures And Federal Cuts, Advocates For Unhoused Step Up Efforts ... Catching up with Warm Up #Boston about tent sweeps, shelter limits, drug dangers, and the criminalization of people living on streets horizonmass.news/202...#Boston #homelessness #housing

Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left #Journalism: And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse. #Editorial by @jasonpramas.bsky.social horizonmass.news/2025/08/21/e... #politics #nonprofit #fundraising

yes, we’re still trying to figure out “what works” 🤣

HorizonMass Is Rebranding: As we start our third year of publication, we’ve decided our news outlet needs BINJ in its name horizonmass.news/2025/08/14/e... #journalism #editorial #Massachusetts

How Tech Giants Are Harming News Outlets Like HorizonMass And BINJ: But our fans can help us survive by, yes, actually reading our articles (and sharing them). The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/08/07/h... #journalism #AI #crisis #GreatDecoupling #criticism #analysis

Video: Cambridge And The Source Of Hip-Hop The little-known history of how the iconic hip-hop publication The Source started in Cambridge. A discussion with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive and Dart Adams ... horizonmass.news/202...

A Column Probably Too Critical Of Google To Be Jacked For AI Search Results Warning: The journalistic fuel that’s powering AI search is a dwindling resource ... horizonmass.news/202...

NEW from BINJ: The Battle Over The Newest Member Of The #Massachusetts #Parole Board Will Angelo Gomez help or hurt the overburdened board? Some say he is dedicated to “support not surveillance.” Others question his priorities. horizonmass.news/202...#Massachusetts#Parole#mapoli #prisonreform

Another Call For An Immediate #Gaza #Ceasefire: Together with the complete withdrawal of all Israeli military forces from that Palestinian territory and the immediate resumption of all international #humanitarian aid programs there horizonmass.news/2025/07/31/a... #politics #justice

Editorial: Public Grantmaking Can Help Mass Indy News Outlets Survive. BINJ would like to work with fellow journalists and allied organizations to convince our state #legislature to give it a shot. horizonmass.news/2025/07/24/e... #journalism #politics #funding #Massachusetts

More Videos: Watch Our Programs from the Cambridge Kiosk ... Interviews with local media and headline makers about the history of publishing in Cambridge and the current state of independent media everywhere binj.news/2025/07/24...

Video: A History Of Alternative Media And Culture In Cambridge, Massachusetts A conversation w/ David Bieber of the David Bieber Archives about everything from Harvard Square’s theaters and venues of yore to current underground media in Greater Boston horizonmass.news/202...

NEW FEATURE: Has The Inhumane And Costly Massachusetts Prison Health Care System Improved Under New Management? horizonmass.news/202...

Executive Director Jason Pramas on BINJ’s big anniversary …

An outstanding new #Boston #history #longread by Jacob Schles ... An often forgotten chapter in women’s labor history, the fight against marriage bans in Massachusetts eventually found success with activism and passionate union efforts ... horizonmass.news/202...

Thanks to Joe Heisler at BNN for having BINJ Editorial Director Chris Faraone on “Talk of the Neighborhoods” to discuss the 10 years of BINJ and more ... binj.news/2025/07/17...

Will Musk’s New Party Create An Opening For A National Left Party? Hard to say if the “America Party” is really getting off the ground or not, but I’d like to publish left-wing activists’ thoughts on that question. horizonmass.news/2025/07/10/w... #politics #analysis #thirdparty #callforsubmissions

New Feature Follow-Up ... Advocates have long said the commonwealth’s system for compensating victims of wrongful convictions is unfair, and now they have a plan to fix it ... horizonmass.news/202...

This #July4, Reflect On What Kind Of #America You Want: A little #exercise everyone in the #USA can do after the festivities … #ideas #vision #democracy #column horizonmass.news/2025/07/03/t...

Check out HorizonMass for all of our videos from the Cambridge Kiosk. This one is for all of the community gadflies and curmudgeons. Thanks to Miranda Spivack for a great conversation about her insightful new book ... horizonmass.news/202...

Out Of Town News And Me: My brief and tumultuous tenure working at the famed #Harvard Square newsstand was nothing if not formative horizonmass.news/2025/06/26/o... #memoir #history #Cambridge #Massachusetts

We hope to see some of you at the Cambridge Kiosk in Harvard Square today (Friday) at 5:30pm for one of our last scheduled programs. We're thrilled to welcome David Bieber of the David Bieber Archives ... binj.news/2025/06/02...

If you have yet to check out the BINJ installation at the Cambridge Kiosk, we have a great event tonight with Marc Goldfinger talking about the history of Spare Change News, plus four more events next week. Hope to see you there! binj.news/2025/06/02...

Time For ‘No Billionaires’ Rallies: The nationwide “No Kings” actions were a nice start—but we need to shut down the oligarchy we have, not the monarchy we don’t. The latest column from @jasonpramas.bsky.social. horizonmass.news/2025/06/19/t... #politics #democracy #nokings #activism #USA

Coral Moons Talks Nature, Emotion, And New Music: An urban band goes rural. #music #band #interview horizonmass.news/2025/06/18/c...

A new collaboration between BINJ and Lucid News: Whistleblowers Claim 2024 Massachusetts Psychedelics Ballot Initiative Violated Campaign Finance Laws ... horizonmass.news/202...

Article by award-winning investigative reporter Sarah Betancourt.

BINJ PROGRAMS AT THE CAMBRIDGE KIOSK Join us for these free community events addressing news and journalism, then and now, in Cambridge and beyond ... binj.news/2025/06/02...

Will The #Boston/Cambridge #Michelin Guide Hurt Local #Restaurant Workers And Diners Alike? The latest from HorizonMass' ‪@jasonpramas.bsky.social‬. horizonmass.news/202... #Boston#Michelin#Restaurant#commentary #analysis #labor #tourism #food #CambridgeMA

CAMBRIDGE KIOSK WITH BINJ INSTALLATION OPENS FRIDAY We are thrilled to play a part in the upcoming opening month of programming for the #Cambridge KiOSK unfolding in the former storied Out of Town News kiosk in #HarvardSquare. binj.news/2025/05/27...

The article everyone in #Massachusetts government is sharing ... Why Is The Parole Board On The Governor’s Back Burner? Prisoner rights advocates say Chair Tina Hurley was dedicated and effective. So why is she leaving and who will replace her? horizonmass.news/202...

.#Worcester Protestors Show How To Respond To #ICE Raids: Brave, #nonviolent family members, #democracy activists, and politicians managed to slow up the warrantless #arrest of an #immigrant mother of 3, until reactionary local #cops piled on. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/202...

The Massachusetts Native Helping The Government Study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena  Ryan Graves flew fighter jets for the Navy, but his toughest mission has been giving credence to UAP sightings ... horizonmass.news/202... #UAP #UAPs #RyanGraves #military #Aerospace

How A Western Mass Reporter Took On Titans Of Big Tech And Media ... An interview with Eoin Higgins, author of ‘Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left’ horizonmass.news/202... #media #bigtech #ElonMusk

10 Exhibit #Ideas For The #Museum Of American #Finance: On May Day, “the other workers’ holiday,” some public-spirited programming suggestions for the incoming #Boston attraction. The latest from HorizonMass' @jasonpramas.bsky.social. horizonmass.news/2025/05/01/1... #labor #politics #economics

Godzilla Takes On Giant Boston Lobster In Latest Stop On Nationwide Rampage Boston is “such a big part of the identity of the country—so it was an easy choice for Godzilla’s tour. Plus, it’s home to some of the finest comic book artists on the planet.” horizonmass.news/202...

Researching And Remembering The Slaves Who Served In The Continental Army ... horizonmass.news/202... #Revolution250 #AmericanHistory #CambridgeMA

This new feature is months in the making, and it's just the beginning of our reporting on how these opioid settlement funds are flowing through cities and towns ... horizonmass.news/202... #opioids #mapoli #OpioidSettlement #fentanyl #overdoses