Let the Sun Shine In
From Savethenews.org Earlier this month, we issued a challenge to our members. We asked them to take a day off from work, visit their local television stations and … rifle through their filing...
View ArticleOnline quiz lets you test your knowledge of Tennessee Sunshine Law
From The Republic: The Tennessee Sunshine Quiz is letting Tennesseans test their knowledge of open government issues with an online survey. The quiz measures knowledge of the state's Public Records...
View ArticleGetting Ready for Sunshine Week
Sunshine Week is less than six weeks away! Agencies, what are you doing to prepare? Last year, Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero sent a message during Sunshine Week to National Archives’...
View ArticleNational Press Club to Host D.C. Open Government Coalition Forum
The National Press Club, as part of its participation in Sunshine Week, is hosting a panel discussion the evening of Wednesday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. on transparency in the District of Columbia.read more
View ArticleEditorial: Alabama jumped the gun on Sunshine Week. And that’s just fine by me.
What’s Sunshine Week, you ask? The journalism associations behind the mid-March event describe Sunshine Week as “a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and...
View ArticleHow to use FOIA laws to find stories, deepen sourcing
To mark Sunshine Week, March 16-22, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press explains how journalists can use information access laws to develop stories in the public interest. This post is...
View ArticleAccess to information should be a common goal
If you’ve been watching what goes on in Washington and some statehouses across the country, you might wonder if there’s any issue that everyone should be able to agree on whether they are conservative...
View ArticleEditorial: Citizen activists deserve most credit for forcing open government
You know Sunshine Week is here by the obligatory blitz of editorials in newspapers owned by companies that spend loftily on corporate digs and six-figure bonuses for their executives. They do this...
View ArticleOpinion: Student Journalists Prod officials about open government
As part of national Sunshine Week, members of the Madison student and professional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists fanned out across the capital city, handing out fortune cookies....
View ArticleEditorial: No time limits on call for open government
Sunshine Week, a push for transparency in government, is drawing to a close. And that's why we choose to highlight it at its end. The demand for open government must not be reserved to a limited time...
View ArticleD.C. Government Transparency to be Explored at Sunshine Week Event
Celebrating Sunshine Week 2015, the National Press Club's Freedom of the Press Committee will join with the D.C. Open Government Coalition to present the fourth annual "D.C. Open Government Summit" on...
View ArticleWILL, Wisconsin Reporter sue to open government records
With Sunshine Week less than two weeks away, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Wisconsin Reporter are pursuing legal action that aims to open up government records to the public. On...
View ArticleA media consipiracy that's good for you
by Eric NewtonEach spring for 10 years now, a vast media conspiracy has rolled across the hills and plains of this nation. Journalists of every stripe – cartoonists to commentators to hard news...
View ArticleSunshine Week -- open government awareness
The annual nationwide Sunshine Week is celebrated this year from March 15 - 21. USA newspapers publish stories about public records and the difficulty in obtaining some of them. “Public records” are...
View ArticleNew players join newspapers in using FOIA requests
Newspapers were once the dominant force in dislodging documents and other records from reluctant federal government agencies, but a new crop of media players, advocacy groups and corporate interests...
View ArticleEditorial:Public must stand up for sunshine
Sunshine Sunday kicks off Sunshine Week in the Sunshine State. That should produce enough glare to require sunglasses as politicians boast about their open meetings, accessible records and public...
View ArticleOpinion: Ain't no Sunshine (in Michigan)
What a terrible Sunshine Week. Founded in 2002, Sunshine Week is celebrated each year in the interest of a simple philosophy: “Open government is good government.” Journalists, activists and...
View ArticleNewsmakers video: The Best & Worst of WNC Open Government
At its Newsmakers forum held on March 17, Carolina Public Press hosted some of the state’s top open government advocates and reporters for a live interview and public question and answer forum about...
View ArticleEditorial: Budget or no budget, process still stinks in NY State
An incredible amount of money — about $140 billion — is on the line. Teacher evaluations, tighter ethics laws for lawmakers, higher education and school funding, environmental cleanup money and much...
View ArticleEditorial: Budget or no budget, process still stinks in NY State
An incredible amount of money ó about $140 billion ó is on the line. Teacher evaluations, tighter ethics laws for lawmakers, higher education and school funding, environmental cleanup money and much...
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