Join News Leaders Association and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for Sunshine Week, the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and what it means for you and your community. This year’s celebration is slated for March 15-21.
Find all the free resources you need to get started right here.
Sunshine Week toolkit
The Sunshine Week toolkit is a free resource available to any participant including, but not limited to, professional and student journalists working in any medium; bloggers; civic and non-profit organizations; schools; and government officials (for activities related to open government only, please do not use them for inferred political endorsements).
Among the items available for free use in this year’s toolkit are:
- A special reporting package
- The Whistleblower Project
- Opinion columns
- Editorial cartoons
- MuckRock’s editorial package
- Sunshine Week logos and icons
Please note that permission to use these materials freely covers only the seven days of Sunshine Week 2020 (March 15-21). However, authors and artists may grant special use permission in cases of student newspapers, weeklies and others who may not be able to publish that week. Please contact sunshineweek@newsleaders.org with individual requests.
For inspiration on the kind of work that can be done utilizing public information, please review the FOI in Action page, and peruse the Bright Ideas collections from past Sunshine Weeks. To see what was offered in earlier Toolkits, visit The Vault.
