Massachusetts has been named the 2026 recipient of the Black Hole Award, a national designation issued annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to spotlight the most secretive government entities in the United States. The award is intended to call out public institutions that “thwart the free flow of information,” and this year SPJ
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