Jason Pramas
Jason Pramas is an American photojournalist. Pramas is executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, which he co-founded with Chris Faraone in 2015, and has been editor-in-chief of its statewide, digital, news outlet since it launched in August 2023. He was formerly executive editor and associate publisher of the alternative newsweekly DigBoston until it folded in June 2023.
A socialist, and longtime labor and community activist, one of Pramas' first ventures was the alternative news agency New Liberation News Service, restarted with original Liberation News Service co-founder "Ray Mungo's blessing". Pramas and "a group of younger radical journalists... publish
As executive director of Campaign on Contingent Work, Pramas was the lead organizer of the Boston Social Forum in 2004. In 2008, Pramas founded Open Media Boston, an online metropolitan newsweekly serving the Boston area, serving as its editor/publisher until merging the publication with BINJ.
He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston, and is noted for curating the 2014-2015 that criticized the racial overtones of the popular Boston Strong slogan.
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.
In 2018, Pramas' column Apparent Horizon won first place in the Political Column category of the annual Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards.