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State of Federal Blogging 2016
This is an interesting article that goes a bit behind the scenes to give you a sense of the what, why, and who of blogs at the White House, NASA, and the Department of the Interior. State of Federal Blogging 2016 by Danielle Brigida, DigitalGov (January 15, 2016).
What was the biggest threat to a free press in 2015? Government Secrecy.
Jonathan Peters, the press freedom correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and an attorney and an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, asks himself the question: “What was the most serious threat last year to a free press in the US?” His conclusion was that the biggest concern in 2015 was clearly […]
White House now on Snapchat
The White House has launched an “Official Story” on Snapchat to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Administration. The announcement (below) says, significantly, that “Tomorrow, our Official Story will take you behind the scenes of the White House’s State of the Union preparations, with footage and angles you won’t find anywhere else.” We’re on Snapchat: […]
Special Newsweek Edition, DECLASSIFIED, Further Declassified
Newsweek magazine, has a special edition called “Declassified: Exposing the Secrets: Files Dossiers and Documents from the FBI, CIA, JSOC, White House, NASA, and more.” It is “a curated list of the most noteworthy documents declassified in 2015.” Although Newsweek was forced to cut out some of the background stories of these declassified documents (due […]
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