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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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CAMPBELL UNVEILS PLAN FOR POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 27, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The mayoral candidate put forth a public safety and criminal justice plan.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Andrea Campbell, mayoral race, police reform, transparency

C-CHANGE: IF THERE WAS EVER A CHANCE FOR BPD REFORM, IT IS NOW

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 20, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

With follow-through, Boston could have a BPD that resembles the force that officials have always pretended we have.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Police Department, Boston Police Reform Task Force, mayor Marty Walsh, transparency

SECOND HEARING ON MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION BILL A SUCCESS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 18, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass State House dome, Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass. Intense HDR. www.joiseyshowaa.com

 

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!) who showed up for the July ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, communication, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Ed Coppinger, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

GIVE MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS TO WORKING JOURNALISTS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 10, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, bill, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, communication, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, journalism department, journalist, labor, legislature, Massachusetts, NABET, NewsGuild, public college, reform, Rep. Ed Coppinger, SAG-AFTRA, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, Society of Professional Journalists, testimony, transparency, union

NO MASS COMMISSION TO STUDY JOURNALISM WITHOUT REPORTER INPUT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 8, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

SECOND HEARING CALLED ON MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION BILL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 19, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, legislature, Massachusetts, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, transparency, website

THE FOILIES 2018: RECOGNIZING THE YEAR’S WORST IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY

Written by ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION Posted March 13, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

In its fourth year, The Foilies recognizes the worst responses to records requests, outrageous efforts to stymie transparency and the most absurd redactions.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FOIA, FOILIES, Freedom of Information Act, Sunshine Week, transparency

BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted June 27, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A rare win on the public records front in Mass

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Maura Healey, PETA, public information, public records, transparency

DEAR READER: HAPPY SUNSHINE WEEK

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 14, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: FOIA, Sunshine Week, transparency

SUNSHINE WEEK SPECIAL: THE FOILIES 2017

Written by ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION Posted March 14, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials

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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: Bill Galvin, Donald Trump, EFF, Elster Solutions, Ericsson, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FOIAFriday, FOILIES, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), General Services Administration, Landis+Gyr, Massachusetts, Mike Pence, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, New Orleans City Marshall, Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz, Santa Maria Police Department, States of Texas and Arizona, Sunshine Week, transparency, U.S. Department of Justice

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