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The controversy over the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for non-profit status from Tea Party groups has put a spotlight on a subject wi...

This piece at Forbes about Boston journalist Justin Rice is interesting for a few reasons: �" It describes how Justin, a few years back, started an independ...

Earlier this week I wrote about a discrepancy between the data in FedBizOpps  and the data in USASpending.gov.  It was my understanding that all contracts...

Outrage at seizure of AP records: The journalism and media world was collectively seething in a way you don't often see this week after the Associated Press...

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Founda...

NEWS: A new discussion draft of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act was released this week, and a bill is expected to follow soon. (FedSco...

The Poderopedia platform helps show the relationships among the elite in a country or region, especially in places where power is concentrated in the hands...

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News that individuals at the IRS improperly targeted certain groups for scrutiny thrust DC’s “House Cleaners� into high gear. Indignant talking points ...

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Earlier this week Integrity Action’s Fredrik Galtung launched his working paper �The Fix-Rate: A Key Metric for Transparency and Accountability’ (PDF)....

NEWS: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to say whether there would be a review of the Department of Justice procedures on searching journalis...

Everyone is invited to attend a Transparency Happy Hour on Wednesday, May 22, from 5:30-7:30 at Bullfeathers. Join advocates, activists, academics, and staf...

At the risk of doing what I'm best at �" overstating the obvious �" you might have noticed that I don't use this blog much anymore. Actually, I do use it, ...

'His colleagues at other news organizations know it. His friends at the network, were they real friends, would try to talk him out of this disastrous state o...

Tweet This was first published on the BBC College of Journalism website: I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not 'writing', or 'producing', but ...

TweetThere is an exchange that sometimes takes place, perfectly described by Beth Ashton, between those who use technology, and those who don't. It goes like...

TweetA new survey for journalists, bloggers and online publishers, which can be found at this link, aims to collect information about their experiences of an...

'When the users know more than the journalists, what are good journalists supposed to do?' These are lecture notes and links from my presentation to the edit...

TweetHere's another collection of questions answered in public as part of the FAQ section �" this time concerning citizen journalism: What effect do you thi...

TweetVideographer Franzi Baehrle has published an ebook documenting lessons in delivering video training to non-journalists. The ebook was part of her final ...

Tweet Last night I published the final chapter of my first ebook: Scraping for Journalists. Since I started publishing it in July, over 40 'versions' of th...

An Arizona Republic reporter and self-described "water geek" on how to cover western water issues

The GOP hijacks the transparency debate as the EPA calls for a 'reset' with reporters

And that's saying something

Egypt Independent's closure a blow for environmental coverage

Nautilus is the latest in a proliferation of science-news sites

Mark Jannot to craft new content, communications strategy

A new, interactive map from the Earth Journalism Network has details

Google doodle dominates coverage of the environmental holiday

Articles about explosives, surveillance, and prosthetics followed tragedies in Boston, Texas

Five-year-old news site honored for exposé of Michigan oil spill

Journalists, GOP demand more openness at EPA

A physician toes the party line on emergency contraceptives, and science takes a hit

New ebook from TED Books and The Washington Post takes readers down the pipeline's proposed path

ABC News and NBC News say they will replace Potter and Bazell

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In a  paper released today by Harvard University , I analyze the career of writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben and his impact over the past 20 years on...

In a new study at the journal  BMC Medical Ethics , my colleague Declan Fahy and I analyze the journalistic and critical reception of Rebecca Skloot's 2...

In a column this week at Time magazine, Michael Grunwald says he's on the side of activists who oppose the XL Tar Sands pipeline and chides the "respectable ...

Over at The Breakthrough, I have a Public Square post up discussing the need for the environmental movement to broaden and diversify their public outreach, c...

For a study I am working on this semester while on sabbatical at Harvard University, I wanted to try to estimate book publishing trends over time related to ...

For readers in the Boston area, I will be giving a talk at Boston University's College of Communication on Thursday, December 6   The talk is a preview of t...

If you live in an American city, chances are this past summer and fall you have experienced the health effects of climate change.  As Richard Harris report...

On Sunday at 7pm EST PBS Nova is airing a special on the science of mega-storm Sandy.  For readers who work and teach at universities, I encourage you to w...

As New York City struggles to recover from Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg today announced that the city would start rationing gas, as long lines and scarce supplies ...

Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art  is an interdisciplinary project that brings together a group of internationally recognized arti...