Note: This is one in a series of articles in the SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter's 2015 Sunshine Week project. Sunshine Week is March 15-21. By Nancy Watzman In 1998, civil rights advocate Amos Brown, now a board member of the NAACP, learned the extent to which the government had followed him in the late 1950s, … Continue reading ‘Sunshine in government is not a natural phenomenon, as it is in nature’

Note: This is one in a series of articles in the SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter 2015 Sunshine Week project. Sunshine Week is March 15-21. The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of groups and individuals dedicated to ensuring the transparency of state and local governments in Colorado by promoting freedom of the … Continue reading Colorado Freedom of Information director: Strengthen open meetings laws

Note: This is one in a series of articles in the SPJ Colorado Pro 2015 Sunshine Week project. Sunshine Week is March 15-21. By Kris Kodrich We spend much time in my international mass communication class at Colorado State University talking about Freedom of Information in all forms – from the ability to access information … Continue reading We must remember to use the First Amendment

Note: This is one a series of articles in the SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter 2015 Sunshine Week project. Sunshine Week is March 15-21. By Tom Johnson Confused? Unsettled? Inundated and floundering in a tsumani of digital data, tools, processes and unprecedented expectations driven by concepts like site dwell-time, click-throughs and 24-hour-a-day deadlines? I doubt this … Continue reading Let’s recast the definition of “freedom of information”

This is one in an occasional series of interviews with Colorado journalists. It is also part of the SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter's 2015 Sunshine Week project. Sunshine Week is March 15-21. By Ed Otte Weekly newspapers face greater risks than metro-area news organizations when they challenge local government over freedom of information issues. This is … Continue reading Leadville newspaper editor wages freedom of information battle