{"id":67867,"date":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-panel-discussion-on-media-access-station-nightclub-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-panel-discussion-on-media-access-station-nightclub-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/uri-to-host-panel-discussion-on-media-access-station-nightclub-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host panel discussion on media access, Station Nightclub fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tDiscussion part of national \u2018Sunshine Week\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; February 22, 2007 &#8212; The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a panel discussion March 13 at 7 p.m. on media coverage in the aftermath of the Station Nightclub Fire, with an emphasis on access to public records. The panel will explore the difficulties reporters faced in obtaining records regarding the case and the investigation. The discussion is particularly timely since the Attorney General\u2019s office has released grand jury testimony in the criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe presentation, free and open to the public, will be held in Independence Auditorium, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe evening is jointly sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Journalism Department and ACCESS\/Rhode Island, a broad-based, non-profit freedom of information coalition dedicated to improving citizen access to the records and processes of government in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis panel is one in a series of programs the Journalism Department has sponsored in recent years so that the University community and others can  understand and appreciate the importance of transparency at all levels of  government,\u201d comments Linda Lotridge Levin, chair of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Journalism Department. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nRoss Cheit of Brown University, a founding member of ACCESS\/Rhode Island and a member of the Ethics Commission will moderate.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPanelists for the evening are:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Joel Rawson, senior vice president and executive editor, The Providence Journal<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal reporter who covered the fire from its onset<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Joseph Cavanagh, noted First Amendment attorney, Blish and Cavanaugh<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Lise Gescheidt, attorney, Rhode Island Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe discussion is part of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public\u2019s right to know.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion part of national \u2018Sunshine Week\u2019 &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; February 22, 2007 &#8212; The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a panel discussion March 13 at 7 p.m. on media coverage in the aftermath of the Station Nightclub Fire, with an emphasis on access to public records. The panel will explore the difficulties reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}