J-Ideas Sunshine Week Podcasts

The team at J-Ideas at Ball State University in Muncie has developed two podcasts for Sunshine Week. The spots were produced by grad student Josie Bode under the direction of J-Ideas Director Warren Watson.

Supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, J-Ideas was developed to encourage excellence in high school journalism.

Muncie H.S. Students Fight for Access Muncie Central High School has a history of fighting for access to records. In this discussion, journalism adviser Terry Nelson talks with senior Luke Beasley (in hat), editor in chief of the student publication The Munsonian, and Andrew Walker, a junior who is the newspaper's managing editor and secretary of the Indiana High School Student Press Association. Download Muncie_Central_HS.mp3

Indianapolis Star Editor Ryerson on FOI In an interview with J-Ideas Director Warren Watson (right), Indianapolis Star Editor Dennis Ryerson (left), discusses the current media climate and its impact on open records laws. Ryerson also talks about how Freedom of Information laws impact people's lives. Download Dennis_Ryerson.mp3

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I think you gys hate Bush too much. He can't do anything about it! There's always corruption in every government and there hasn't been one without it in the history of mankind! You have to keep things secret from other countries. Right now there is a possibility of a country attacking U.s. The feud between America, Russia, and China has not ended! Everyone is told: communism over, etc... Humans are good people by nature. IF they are not they have an unbalanced brain phsycologicly. You don't know how hard it is to govern the "richest"
and most complex country in the world. Yes i agree they keep too much things secret, but if you are familiar with the field where they hide it you will know. The UFO's were anti-gravitational aircraft. The other thing is that as long as you don't do anything bad there is no point in your caring what level of privacy you have. The last point is that the government has and always will be an escape goat and also the president.
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