News and More
Click to Expand Instantly

SPJ News

– SPJ, coalition of 42 other groups, call for full investigation into Saudi Arabian journalist’s whereabouts
– Resolutions passed at Excellence in Journalism 2018
– Andrew Seaman receives Wells Memorial Key, SPJ's highest honor

Events and Deadlines

– 10/17/18: D.C. Pro freelancers' lunch
– 10/18/18: Free training event: YouTube for Journalists and Mobile Reporting
– 10/19/18: SPJ is hiring! Application deadline: Part-Time Bookkeeper
– 10/19/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Morgantown, W.Va.)
– 10/31/18: Deadline: SPJ Chapter Grant Applications

Quill

– When approaching a story, you must play your cards right
– 10 lessons in journalism ethics
– What I learned in my great American newsroom trip
– A media historian reflects on using Quill as a source
– 2017 law means changes for freelancers’ taxes

Journalist's Toolbox
– Weather
– Public Safety Issues
– Maps and Map Searches

Tweets by @spj_tweets

Stay in Touch

Freedom of Information
FOIA Home
News/Articles
Find FOI in your state
FOI step-by-step guides

Quill: Stories About FOI
– Why the #FreePress editorials were not enough
– Meet the victims of violence against journalists
– World Press Freedom Day hits home

FOI Committee
This committee is the watchdog of press freedoms across the nation. It relies upon a network of volunteers in each state organized under Project Sunshine. These SPJ members are on the front lines for assaults to the First Amendment and when lawmakers attempt to restrict the public's access to documents and the government's business. The committee often is called upon to intervene in instances where the media is restricted.

Freedom of Information Committee Chair

Danielle McLean
Investigative reporter
ThinkProgress
E-mail
@DanielleBMcLean
Bio (click to expand) Danielle McLean is an investigative reporter at ThinkProgress and chair of SPJ’s Freedom of Information Committee. Over the past five years, McLean has worked as an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News and has been published in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the MetroWest Daily News, the Milford Daily News, and dozens of weekly Massachusetts publications. She was ranked no. 13 in Scout Somerville magazine’s list of the top 40 local leaders in the City of Somerville, Massachusetts for her reporting at the Somerville Journal newspaper and has won the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s government, transportation, business and economic, and courts and crime reporting awards. McLean previously served as president of SPJ’s New England chapter, pushing for public records reform and a free press. Under her watch, the chapter won SPJ’s 2014-15 Circle of Excellence award for Freedom of Information.

Reading Room
Freedom of Information
Ethics
Diversity
First Amendment/
Public & the Press

Articles for...
Freelancers
Students
Young Journalists
International Journalists
Educators