And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986 Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about […]
SUPPORT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN MASSACHUSETTS
This #GivingTuesday, Help BINJ With a Donation—Matched Dollar for Dollar Up to $1,000 With Giving Tuesday—the unofficial holiday dedicated to donating to nonprofit organizations—upon us, we thought we should address a much broader audience than we normally do in our big annual fundraising appeal for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. So, we’d like to […]
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS
Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce deep dives themselves. Seven years […]
EDITORIAL: NOW EVEN LESS NEWS IN SOMERVILLE
DigBoston goes digital-only, yet another reason to donate to the Somerville Media Fund (Somerville Wire) – It’s rare that a journalist writes an editorial about an editorial, but careful readers may note that the principals of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism—Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and me—also run the commercial metro weekly newspaper DigBoston. A […]
EDITORIAL: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE
Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism Nearly three years ago, after hosting a community forum on the crisis in local journalism attended by 115 residents of Somerville, including representatives of over a […]
