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BINJ Live #4 with featured guest Linda Pinkow and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 4d

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 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...

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 5d

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

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Keep Protesting For Democracy

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 9d

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

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

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 10d

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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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 11d

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

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 14d

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

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 16d

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

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...

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 17d

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

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Editorial: Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 20d

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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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 23d

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

The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help

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

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that deescalation should be our watchword at present

Editorial: Elite Propaganda Operations Are Trying To Buy Off The Independent Press

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

They Won’t Tell Us.

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

But BINJ’s journalism is not for sale … ever

Labor Day Should Remind Bostonians Why Trump Is Threatening To Send In The Troops

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

And what we can do about it

Editorial: Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left Journalism

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.”

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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#homelessness #housing

HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse

Editorial: HorizonMass Is Rebranding

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

As we start our third year of publication, we’ve decided our news outlet needs BINJ in its name

How Tech Giants Are Harming News Outlets Like HorizonMass And BINJ

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

But our fans can help us survive by, yes, actually reading our articles (and sharing them)