Sunshine Week 2009

About Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week, www.sunshineweek.org, is a non-partisan open government initiative led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, with online and broadcast media, public officials, celebrities, civic groups, non-profits, libraries, schools, religious leaders and others. It is endowed through a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, www.knightfoundation.org, which invests in journalism excellence worldwide and the vitality of the 26 communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. It focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change.

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Sunshine Week 2009, March 15-21

The Public Still Views the Federal Govt. as Secretive;
High Marks for President’s Freedom Of Information  Orders

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To be continued..

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Sunshine Week 2008, March 16-22

AP President and CEO Tom Curley to Speak on FOI During Sunshine Week Dinner at the National Press Club

Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley will address Freedom of Information and other open government issues during a Sunshine Week dinner event March 18 at The National Press Club. The dinner is being jointly presented by Sunshine Week and the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library.

The speech will update Curley’s 2004 Hays-Enterprise Lecture, which many view as a defining moment in moving forward the myriad efforts ongoing now to preserve and protect access to information. “The government is pushing hard for secrecy,” he said in the Hays speech. “We must push back equally hard for openness.” Curley’s 2008 speech will look ahead to priorities in the new administration.

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Helium delivers real-world knowledge through citizen journalism. It has a community of more than 100,000 writers, and is quickly becoming one of the richest knowledge resources available online. Helium writers cover more than 85,000 topics that range from politics to pop culture.

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Sunshine Week 2008: The Sunshine Campaign has joined Project Vote Smart’s 20,000 mile Purple Bus Tour that is bringing the Voter’s Self Defense System to people around the country. Sixteen years in the making, the Voter’s Self Defense System provides online access to information on more than 40,000 candidates at all levels of government. The nationwide tour brings a bus specially equipped with a movie theater and computer terminals with free Web access to demonstrate the system.

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The Sunshine campaign is now a Facebook Cause and has its own Facebook Page.

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For those of you who are Freelancers, The Independent Journalist has a link to Bootstrapper blog that has compiled a list of The Top 100 Freelancer Blogs, if you’re interested to know who you are ;>

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Check back here often for more on Sunshine Week 2008.

Donated by Jim Siergey for Sunshine Week 2008

Donated by  Steve Greenberg for Sunshine Week 2008

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