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Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do. Here are two instances reported by Columbia Journalism Review of city officials trying to hide in plain sight. In one, a California town tried to claim video of its council meetings was copyrighted. The judge hearing the case, Michael Fitzgerald …

By Jim Stasiowski It was a very busy day, and I really had no time to talk to a politician’s aide, but my boss said let’s be polite and give him a few minutes. So three of us – my boss, a colleague and I – listened as the smiling …

Below is a list of bills tracked by Nevada Press Association during the 2015 session that were of particular interest to members. Each bill is linked to the Legislative Counsel Bureau page with a history of the bill. To read the final version of bills that were approved, click on …

The term ‘journalist’ gets thrown about fairly casually these days. There’s a good reason. We have mobile journalists and citizen journalists and the widespread opinion that, with the presence of social media, anybody can be a journalist. You no longer need to own a printing press, although that helps. You …

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I go back so far I used to say this about my job at the newspaper: ‘And it all comes down to a kid on a bicycle.’ (OK. If you really want to go back, I was the kid.) We interviewed people, wrote stories, took photos, packaged it all together …

I’m not an attorney, and I try not to sound like one when I’m giving advice or testifying in front of the Legislature. However, I do spend a lot of time analyzing statues such as Nevada’s records and open-meeting laws, which gives me an opinion on whether they are difficult …

It’s heartening to see online media stepping up for freedom of information on the federal level, and I’m hopeful the efforts eventually will carry through to state and local governments. This piece in Columbia Journalism Review details several efforts by unlikely newsrooms — Buzzfeed? Vice? — to invest in Freedom …