FOIA ROUNDTABLE

THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 50 YEARS LATER:
ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS IN THE DIGITAL ERA

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 • 2:00-5:00p
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND

Introduction: Julianne Newton, Interim Edwin L. Artzt Dean/Visual Communication, University of Oregon
• Tim Gleason, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association/Journalism, University of Oregon (moderator)
• Michael Schudson, Journalism, Columbia University (featured presentation)
“Toward Transparency: The Roots of FOIA and the Rise of a ‘Right to Know'”
• Duane Bosworth, Open Oregon/Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
• Michael Kron, Special Counsel to the Attorney General, State of Oregon
• Mark Rumold, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Lee van der Voo, Staff Reporter, Independent Journalist, Investigate West, PDX
• Brent Walth, Former Managing Editor, Willamette Week/Journalism, University of Oregon
• Kyu Ho Youm, Journalism/Law, University of Oregon

Resources:
Fifty Years of FOIA (2016, January 12, Nieman Reports)
50th Anniversary of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
250th Anniversary of the Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 in Sweden
Transparency Project: History of FOIA (EFF)
FOIA Mapper (Knight Prototype Fund)

Cosponsors: Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair, Knight Chair in Communication Research, School of Journalism and Communication, and Turnbull Portland Center.