New from ace BINJ prison and parole reporter Jean Trounstine ... Inside Clark University’s program to leverage education’s proven power to cut recidivism ... binj.news/2025/11/04... #Worcester #reentry #prison #independentjournalism #Recidivism #PrisonReform

The #Massachusetts #opioidsettlement spending for FY25 isn't public yet, but we have the numbers ... Jon Gerhardson impugns the unpublished report, including spending on services and equity grants, and millions of dollars unaccounted for: binj.news/2025/11/05...#Massachusetts#opioidsettlement#OpioidCrisis

BINJ reporter C. Scott Morris talks about his recent feature on immigrants and social services in #Somerville under the threat of #ICE raids From our #BINJLive show on YouTube Article here: binj.news/2025/10/16... Full interview: youtube.com/live/sj8...#Somerville#ICE#BINJLive#ICERaids #Immigration

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our guest is Jonathan Gerhardson, a BINJ reporter! We'll be discussing whether Mass municipalities are finally starting to use opioid settlement abatement funds! On YouTube Live: youtube.com/live/Uik... #Opioid

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...#Cambridge #supportlocalnews

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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 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! horizonmass.news/2025/10/23/e... #journalism #news #Boston #Massachusetts

Boston Protest Legend Rob Potylo Detained By ICE In Oregon The performer also known as Robby Roadsteamer was reportedly released about an hour later horizonmass.news/202...

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 horizonmass.news/202...

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 Read More Here: binj.news/2025/10/07...#Massachusetts#Opioid #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 horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/s... #politics #SomervilleMA #Gaza #democracy

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 horizonmass.news/202...#Opioid#Massachusetts#Prisons#OpioidCrisis

Great to see so much media activity in Cambridge ... cambridgeday.com/202...

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 horizonmass.news/202...

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

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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...