AAN News
Membership Application Forms Available
March 1 is deadline for applying papers
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AAN Staff |
01-25-2002 10:20 am |
Association News
Is This the Demise of Open Government?
AAN Attorney Alice Neff Lucan looks at efforts by many state legislatures to roll back Sunshine Laws. Her conclusion is that these laws and legislative efforts are troubling but not yet the end of Freedom of Information as we know it. Her advice: ask who's been requesting government information and being denied, then publish that information. "If you don't tell them about access, how is anyone to know or care?" she asks.
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Alice Neff Lucan |
01-23-2002 11:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Alice Neff Lucan
Bergman Named First Amendment Speaker
“Insider” model speaks at Madison convention
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Keith Pandolfi |
01-22-2002 10:32 am |
Association News
Seven Days Joins Suit Over Governor's Schedulenew
Seven Days has joined a lawsuit over Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's refusal last fall to release his daily schedule. The suit was originally filed by the Rutland Herald/Times Argus. David
Rocchio, counsel for the governor, says
“legal exceptions” in the state’s public records law
exempt the governor’s schedule from disclosure, to protect his security or his ability to obtain frank policy advice.
"Baloney," writes Seven Days columnist Peter Freyne. "We say there aren’t any “legal exceptions” in state statute allowing
Vermont’s chief executive to operate in such secrecy. It’s against the law."
Seven Days |
01-15-2002 1:51 pm |
Industry News
St. Pete Weekly To Operate Ironmindsnew
St. Pete Weekly Newspapers will operate the Web portal Ironminds.com under a joint agreement with New York Metropolis, another non-AAN weekly alternative newspaper distributed in New York City's outer boroughs. St. Pete Weekly Newspapers publishes the new alternative newspaper St. Pete Weekly, which will handle Ironminds.com's day-to-day operations and move the Web site from a diarist-style online magazine to a portal and syndicate for alternative journalism.
Editor & Publisher |
01-14-2002 3:40 pm |
Industry News
Whitaker Named Director of Academy for Alternative Journalism
Returns to Medill after stint at Ebony magazine
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AAN Staff |
01-14-2002 11:48 am |
Association News
Utah Media Challenge Governor Over Deleted E-mailsnew
Four Utah media organizations, including Salt Lake City Weekly, have threatened to sue Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt for his policy of routinely deleting official e-mails, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Media attorneys argue Leavitt is destroying records of "the governmental present and historical past." Managing Editor Chris Smart tells the Tribune, "Those e- mails belong
to the taxpayers and the voters. The fact that he has not recognized this is of
great concern."
The Salt Lake Tribune |
01-10-2002 4:04 pm |
Industry News
