Article archive / April 1, 2015
Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 4. Source pages: 3.
Sunshine Week is the national initiative to promote the ideals and importance of open government and freedom of information. The Associated Press and the American Society of News Editors distributed an array of resources to newspapers, to be used to highlight the theme of Sunshine Week.
Participants from newspapers, civic groups, libraries, schools, and others from all over the country, come together to point out the public’s right to know.
The American Society of News Editors works to encourage individuals and communities to increase their awareness about the need for and benefit of an increasingly open and accountable government.
To celebrate these ideals we’ve selected cartoons by Joel Pett (this page) and Jesse Springer (page 16) and included excerpts from the “model” proclamation that the New Editors developed for communities.
In honor of Sunshine Week we are holding a contest, the “Sunshine meets Psychology Contest,” to point out the most psychologically relevant ideas having to do with freedom of information. See page 16 for details. The best quote, comment or idea linking psychological science and FIOA will be awarded a prize.
Sunshine Week is brought to you by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Bloomberg, The Gridiron Club and Foundation, American Society of News Editors, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
This article is part of a historical newspaper archive. Read the original issue for its original layout, photographs and graphics.