Oh, The Flacks, The Obstacles They Throw Up….

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

A major shout-out to my co-blogger and co-author, Dave Cuillier, for this fantastic study…and thanks to the good folks at the Society of Environmental Journalists for the tip! We’ve all felt that the obstacles that government PIO “minders” throw up have been growing in number and intensity, and now a study by SPJ proves it…it [...]

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More Coverage From The First Global Conference on Transparency Research

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Nice coverage here: The end product of a “Wikileaks World” may not be greater openness or effective repression, but more pervasive “spin.” That is the message a leading British researcher and author brought to the first Global Conference on Transparency Research, being held at Rutgers University-Newark. “There doesn’t seem seem to be much to stop [...]

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Transparency: This Generation’s Magna Carta?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation — a great access advocate at a great access advocacy shop — attended the first Global Conference on Transparency Research at Rutgers University-Newark, which brought together two hundred transparency researchers from around the world. Thanks to a post-surgical travel ban, I missed it, doggonit, but I thought I’d pass along his great [...]

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OECD Paper on Open Government Published

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

“Open Government: Beyond Static Measures” looks at the issue of metrics in transparency and examines some of the ways that access can be qualitatively measured. From the intro: The purpose of this paper is to introduce new indicators for measuring government openness. Existing open government indicators tend to focus either on the presence of key [...]

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New Study Chronicles Demise of News-Driven FOI

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Something that has worried me for a long time: New research brings to light some of the previously unrecognized risks that may jeopardize government openness and accountability as a result of the predicted “death of newspapers.” In a forthcoming study in the Washington & Lee Law Review, Brigham Young University law professor RonNell Andersen Jones undertakes [...]

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