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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 […]
Open Letter to GPO regarding the Regional Discard Policy
A group of government information librarians have written an open letter to the GPO Superintendent of Documents asking questions regarding the implementation of the new regional discard policy. Below is the text of the letter. We will also post GPO’s answers to these important questions here on FGI. Dear Superintendent of Documents Mary Alice Baish, […]
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