Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets
HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!
[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth.
FIVE OF BINJ, THREE YEARS OF DIGBOSTON
A Wild Ride Gets Wilder… and #BlackLivesMatter This week my partners Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I mark two important anniversaries: Five years ago we founded the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and three years ago we separately acquired DigBoston. The first an innovative noncommercial organization dedicated to producing long-form investigative journalism and distributing it […]
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Including a sample Q&A that you can modify for use with your own family For most of us who pay close attention to the progress of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three months, talking to our families about how to stay safe and healthy can be difficult. People don’t want to hear that the […]
ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT
Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis