OpenGovVideos
Apologies: These videos must remain private until the project is rolled out on the NFOIC national site in February 2012.
#OpenGovVideos is a joint-venture with the National Freedom of Information Coalition, a nonpartisan alliance of citizen-driven nonprofit freedom of information organizations, academic and First Amendment centers, journalistic societies and attorneys.
These videos — conducted with journalists, editors and lawyers across the country — seek to understand how freedom of information issues affect both journalists and citizens in American society.
BILL MARIMOW was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun and served as managing editor and vice president of news at National Public Radio.
A graduate of Trinity College, he studied the First Amendment at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.
Over nearly four decades in the industry, he twice received the Pulitzer Prize. While Marimow was a top editor at The Baltimore Sun, the newspaper won Pulitzer Prizes for feature writing, investigative reporting and beat reporting.
Marimow has also received two Robert F. Kennedy
Foundation awards, two Silver Gavel Awards from the American Bar Association and public service awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Scripps Howard Foundation.
He has served as a member of the Poynter Institute’s national advisory board and the advisory board of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. He also is a founding member of the board of FairWarning, a California website that produces investigative reporting about occupational safety and health.
—From the ASU website
STEVE DOIG is the Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, specializing in computer-assisted reporting — the use of computers and social science techniques to help journalists do their jobs better.
Before teaching at ASU, Doig had a 23-year career
as a newspaper journalist, including 19 years at the Miami Herald. There, he served variously as research editor, pollster, science editor, columnist, federal courts reporter, state capital bureau chief, education reporter and aviation writer.
Investigative projects on which he worked at the Miami Herald have won several major journalism prizes, including:
• The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (1993) for What Went Wrong, an analysis of the
damage patterns from Hurricane Andrew that showed how weakened building codes
and poor construction practices contributed to the extent of the disaster.
• The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting (1994) for Lost in America, an examination of how the nation’s immigration policies have failed.
• The Investigative Reporters & Editors Award (1995) for Crime and No Punishment, a probe into why South Florida had the highest crime rate and the lowest incarceration
rate of any major metropolitan area in the country.
—From ASU website
EMILY RAMSHAW, reporter and editor at the Texas Tribune, talks about her experience with open government and the state of Texas transparency.
“Emily Ramshaw investigates state agencies and covers social services for the Tribune. Previously, she spent six years reporting for The Dallas Morning News, first in Dallas, then in Austin. In April 2009 she was named Star Reporter of the Year by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and the Headliners Foundation of Texas. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, she received a bachelor’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.”
—From the Texas Tribune’s website
SHAWN MCINTOSH, editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sits down for a talk about the AJCs investigation into cheating in Atlanta public schools and their use of open government to break open the investigation.
McIntosh is responsible for helping keep the newsroom’s radical reorganization on track, helping create a nimble and innovative culture and providing tools, training and change leadership to move the newsroom to a brighter future. She has spent a career in investigative and enterprise journalism, leading projects at USA TODAY, the Dallas Morning News and Atlanta. She served on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors for more than a decade and was president for two years. Prior to moving to Atlanta, five years ago, McIntosh was the top editor of The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi’s largest newspaper.
—From the Knight Digital Media Center’s website
