Florida Politics January 2, 2018 The Miami Herald’s Carol Marbin Miller and former Herald reporter Audra D.S. Burch have won the First Amendment Foundation‘s inaugural Lucy Morgan Award for Open Government Reporting for their series, “Fight Club: Dark secrets of Florida juvenile justice.” “Miller and Burch secured datasets from four state agencies and analyzed 10 years of data for the series, which […]
The First Amendment Foundation Announces Winners of its 2017 Sunshine Awards
January 2, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Rachel Gelbmann, 850.224.4555 rachel@floridafaf.org [VIEW THE PDF VERSION] The First Amendment Foundation’s 2017 Sunshine Awards recognize those who have made significant contributions to furthering open government through service, litigation, and reporting. In addition to the Pete Weitzel/Friend of the First Amendment Award and the James C. Adkins/Sunshine Litigation […]
Spotted at the Governors Club: The last troubadour of Real Florida
Florida Politics by Florence Snyder March 16, 2017 Jeff Klinkenberg is not the kind of guy who does “luncheons,” but there he was at the Governors Club Tuesday, entertaining Friends of the First Amendment — some real, some fake — at the First Amendment Foundation’s annual fundraiser. He looked a lot more comfortable later that […]