SPJ panel on Open Records
Mar 13th, 2008 by JamieB
• The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is hosting the Region 4 Conference – “Digital Democracy” tomorrow and Saturday (March 14 & 15) at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh.
One of the panel discussions will be on “Open Records Laws: Forum & Update,” which will compare open records laws in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Michigan and discuss the current status and use of the laws, proposed changes, and what a model Open Records Law might look like. The panelists are Teri Henning, general counsel of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association; David L. Marburger, a partner in the Cleveland law office of Baker Hostetler; and Brian Farkas, the Associated Press’s news editor for West Virginia. Jeremy Steele, a director of SPJ Region 4 and a business reporter with the Lansing State Journal in Michigan, will moderate.
• DelawarePolitics.net has posted a video of yesterday’s “Transparency Press Conference” in Delaware at which Erik Arneson, Communications and Policy Director for PA Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, talked about the new open records law in Pennsylvania.