Jason Pramas

Jason Pramas is an American photojournalist and artist of Greek descent. He is executive editor and associate publisher of the alternative newsweekly DigBoston, network director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) - an investigative reporting group and regional wire service that he co-founded with Chris Faraone in 2015 - and writes the syndicated column Apparent Horizon. He also founded Open Media Boston, an online metropolitan news weekly serving the Boston, MA area, in 2008 and served as its editor/publisher until merging the publication with BINJ. He was formerly an assistant professor of communications at Lesley University, but has stated that he believes he lost his job in retaliation for helping lead a successful drive to organize Lesley core faculty into a labor union in 2015. A socialist, and longtime labor and community activist, Pramas was the lead organizer of the Boston Social Forum in 2004. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston, and is noted for curating the 2014-2015 Boston Strong? art show (featuring work by Shea Justice and himself) that criticized the popular Boston Strong slogan for valorizing the people tragically slain in the Boston Marathon bombing while ignoring the ongoing crisis of the huge number of shooting deaths of young people of color every year in Boston. He was born in Boston in 1966.

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• Teach labor history today save unions tomorrow jason pramas
• Bnn news interviews jason pramas and shea justice boston strong artists
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