RTDNA Executive Director Dan Shelley is calling on lawmakers to allow for more access to video from police body cameras. Shelley writes that access to police body camera video varies by jurisdiction and that many states are taking up the issue legislatively. The RTDNA was involved in opposing legislation on... - MORE -

Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council President Bill Lueders says some elected officials in Wisconsin are using a push for privacy to justify efforts to block the release of public information. Lueders made his case in this column for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “The evocation of privacy as a justification of... - MORE -

A recent article from Poynter suggests that newsroom diversity initiatives don’t work because of newsroom culture. “Transforming newsrooms could mean embracing this notion: assumptions about whiteness are as much a part of the problem of diversity as they are part of the solution,” Kathleen McElroy wrote. She’s the director of... - MORE -