Panel: The working journalist’s guide to using FOI laws (Health Journalism 2012)
Speaker: Charles Davis, Ph.D., associate professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Panel description: Public records are at the core of some of the most influential health journalism of recent years. This nuts-and-bolts workshop will show you how it’s done. You will learn when and how to file requests under state and federal Freedom of Information laws, what you can do to make those requests successful, what pitfalls to avoid, where to turn for help and what options you have when responses are slow or inadequate. You will develop ideas for stories drawn from FOI requests on your own beat. And you’ll leave jazzed about making public records a regular part of your reporting.
