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Blogger Wins $225,000 Settlement Over Public Records Delay

By Brian Denzer

Matt Sanchez, writing for the Citizen Media Law Project:
Washington state political blogger Stefan Sharkansky won a $225,000 settlement last week from a county government that took two years to comply with his request for information. The settlement ended Sharkansky’s lawsuit against King County over officials’ improper delay in producing documents related to the state’s… »

Computational journalism promises to rejuvenate investigative reporting

By Brian Denzer

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter” (Thomas Jefferson, 1787).
As newspapers across the nation cut back their staffs or fold up for good, a reasonable concern is how the watchdog role of the “fourth… »




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