MASSWIRE ARCHIVE
This is the archive of all articles from BINJ’s MassWire news service prior to September 2023. Check out the new MassWire page at masswire.news.
BINJ ED DIRECTOR DISCUSSES STATE POLICE INVESTIGATION ON BLOOMBERG RADIO
In addition to appearing in DigBoston, the article has also been published by our frequent partners at the Shoestring in ...
EVENT: REVIVING LOCAL JOURNALISM IN SOMERVILLE
SAVE THE DATE for the follow-up event to February's successful Somerville Community Summit! ...
REAL TROOPERS & BEEPER DAYS
Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades ...
BINJ PARTNERS WITH OUTLETS ACROSS THE US FOR COVER STORY ON FENTANYL CRISIS
Our team is dedicated to covering the opioid scourge through our F.I.G.H.T. Opiates program, and since these drugs are ripping ...
GODSMACKED: BOSTON’S HIP CHRISTIANITY BOOM
While attendance at traditional churches is down, the celebrity-studded Hillsong is providing a boost for Boston Christianity, at least for ...
THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE
The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice ...
A CLIMATE FIGHT FOR THE AGES
After four years of struggle, Weymouth activists continue to challenge the fossil fuel industrial complex ...
A SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE
Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a ...
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME
If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how ...
EASTBOUND AND GOWN
"We have a lot of Central Americans, and we also have a wave of Arab/Middle Eastern. But what’s different now ...
FENTANYL IN THE FAMILY
Ben Westhoff’s dive into the 'deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic' is the most frightening book of the year, and ...
REVISITING ‘PILGRIMS’: THE CLEANUP ON CAPE COD
To understand the current controversy over the decommissioning of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, you have to understand its past ...
THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED
“Pullman, Lynch and others were also allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud two different companies that sought to do ...
BINJ CO-PUBLISHES FIRST FEATURE IN CHINESE
We are excited to announce that one of our recent features, "Unbearable Pressure: For members of the Asian LGBTQ community, ...
SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL
Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts ...
THE NEW POLLUTANTS
A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you ...
ARLINGTON FOLLOW-UP: SQUANDERED JUSTICE
Public information requests reveal Arlington’s behind-the-scenes response to police controversy ...
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘FENTANYL, INC.’ READING AND INTERVIEW WITH BEN WESTHOFF (SEPT. 13)
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide ...
UNBEARABLE PRESSURE
For members of the Asian LGBTQ community, Boston can be solid ground for personal discovery and advocacy. Still, some stories ...
INTERVIEW & EVENT (JULY 28) AT PORTER SQUARE BOOKS TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE
"The positive that always comes out of those conversations is that you end up getting much more integration of a ...
HELP BINJ BRING ITS POP-UP NEWSROOM BACK TO MANCHESTER FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Independent journalists from BINJ, DigBoston, and several other sites and papers will use the facilities, which we first conceived as ...
WHY WE’RE HELPING BUILD JOURNALISM NONPROFITS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY
"The public benefited, too, from the much greater availability of new visions and values, which broadened the political, cultural, and ...
BINJ WINS AWARDS FOR POLITICAL COLUMN AND FIRST AMENDMENT JOURNALISM
We also had the honor of giving out a prize of our own, the “BINJ Award,” which we sponsored to ...
SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN INFORMATIONAL MEETING (AUG. 8)
A News Garden for a (Potential) News Desert ...
THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT
On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?” ...
HAMPDEN COUNTY’S PEPPER SPRAY PROBLEM
Use of force reports from the Hampden County Correctional Center reveal disproportionate use of chemical force against prisoners with psychiatric ...
FEATURE FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO
Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting ...
MAKING FOIA WORK: THE METHODS AND DESIGN BEHIND OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN PROCUREMENT IN MASS
A single convenient clearinghouse for all of the material we produced—from links to features in English and Spanish, to a ...
MORE DYSFUNCTION THAN DIVERSITY
“I get calls from lifers every week that feel they have not gotten a fair hearing by the parole board.” ...