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Executive Director Jason Pramas​ is executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston and a longtime labor-community organizer with an MFA in visual arts. The institutional memory of our gang, Jason writes the award-winning column Apparent Horizon and has a CV that is several pages long with highlights that include his founding the nonprofit online metro newsweekly Open Media Boston and producing the massive 2004 Boston Social Forum.

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Editorial Director Chris Faraone​ is the editor of ​DigBoston. A ​Boston Phoenix​ alumnus and native of Queens, he has dedicated his adult life to boosting the alternative media and has published several books as well as longform features in Buzzfeed, ​Columbia Journalism Review​, and ​Esquire,​ among other notable outlets.

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Operations Director John Loftus​ founded the online stations UNregular Radio and DigRadio and has experience in A/V production and management. He has developed several websites on multiple platforms, and is also the head designer and operations manager for ​DigBoston​.

Managing Editor Nicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and public sociologist. Nicole is the author of The New Prophets of Capital and The Smartphone Society and a staff writer at Jacobin magazine. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University and previously taught at Boston University.

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Staff Writer Haley Hamilton​ has contributed to publications including the ​Boston Globe​ and helped found Homicide Watch Boston. She has spearheaded and led several BINJ investigations including a series on the racialized history of liquor licensing in Massachusetts, and writes the column Terms of Service about restaurant industry issues from the perspective of workers.

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