Over 80 journalists, journalism students, and professors answer DigBoston’s call to turn out Amazingly, I’m on my first real vacation in four years this week. But I think it’s important to pen a truncated version of my usual column to thank the 80 plus people (about half of whom were journalism students… yay!) […]
GIVE MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS TO WORKING JOURNALISTS
This week, I joined fellow journalists, journalism educators, and members of the public at large in testifying on a bill to form a Mass journalism commission that is currently before the state legislature. In view of the potential importance of the initiative, my column this week is simply the text of my testimony. For […]
NO MASS COMMISSION TO STUDY JOURNALISM WITHOUT REPORTER INPUT
Between the countless white papers already in existence and the obvious reality on the ground that any reporter who has been in the game for more than a year can tell you about, there is already more than enough information to start planning ways to reverse the destruction that the likes of leeches such as Gatehouse Media have wrought in Mass.
SECOND HEARING CALLED ON MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION BILL
After some fast action by your pals at DigBoston and BINJ Almost immediately after rising on Monday, I knew that I wasn’t going to have a normal start to my week. Production on DigBoston commences over the weekend for my colleagues and me, and concludes early Wednesday morning when each issue goes to […]
THE FOILIES 2018: RECOGNIZING THE YEAR’S WORST IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY
In its fourth year, The Foilies recognizes the worst responses to records requests, outrageous efforts to stymie transparency and the most absurd redactions.
BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING
A rare win on the public records front in Mass
DEAR READER: HAPPY SUNSHINE WEEK
There’s a reason that, even as a little paper, we pay such close attention to the public records law and to the flow of information between government entities and private citizens.
SUNSHINE WEEK SPECIAL: THE FOILIES 2017
Think of it as the Golden Raspberries but for government transparency, where the bad actors are actually going off script to deny the public the right to understand what business is being conducted on their behalf.
BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS
Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible
TALK TO THE HAND (BECAUSE BILL GALVIN AIN’T LISTENIN’)
Secretary holds sham hearing on records access
