Attorney General Talks about the Revamped Sunshine Laws
Thursday, May 10th, 2012 Posted in Atlanta Press Club, Freedom of the press | No Comments »Attorney General Sam Olens visited the Atlanta Press Club to discuss the complete overhaul of Georgia’s open meeting and records laws Tuesday. The restructured sunshine laws include some major changes. However, some are still asking for further improvements. When Associated Press ...
World Press Freedom Day
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »Nearly 20 years ago the United Nations General Assembly enacted World Press Freedom Day. Now, every year on May 3, humanity is asked to review the condition of media freedom throughout the world, honor journalists who have perished while performing ...
Senate Panel OKs Proposed Public Records Changes
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »By Errin Haines, Associated Press Reporter and Atlanta Press Club Board of Directors ATLANTA (AP) - Legislation to change Georgia's open government laws could soon come up for a vote in the state Senate now that a committee has approved ...
Atlanta Press Club Remembers Legendary Journalist
Monday, February 20th, 2012 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »Anthony Shadid, legendary reporter for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and most recently, The New York Times passed away Thursday, February 16 from an acute asthma attack while reporting in Syria. Shadid, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won ...
Proposed Revision of GA’s Open Govt. Laws
Friday, January 13th, 2012 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »The Daily Report offers these updates on the proposed revision of Georgia’s open government laws. Sponsor calls open government revisions “challenging” Governor wants to remove industry recruitment bids from open records
Atlanta Press Club speaks out on Open Records overhaul
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »Yesterday Cynthia Counts, First Amendment attorney, and Elaine Hudson, assistant director of the Atlanta Press Club, attended the Ga. House Judiciary (civil) committee hearing on the substitute open records/meetings bill H.B. 397. It was a packed house; people were spilling ...
Open Meetings, Records Act Rewrite Pushed by AG Olens
Thursday, August 11th, 2011 Posted in Freedom of the press | No Comments »The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet on August 30 to discuss a rewrite of the state Open Meetings and Records Act that has become a priority for Attorney General Sam Olens. House Bill 397 was filed late in ...
Legacy of Jewell case unclear
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Posted in Freedom of the press | 1 Comment »The long-running libel case of Richard Jewell versus the Atlanta Journal-Constitution may finally be at an end. Although the newspaper has been vindicated by the courts, Jewell remains a tragic figure whose life was never the same after he was ...