Media leaders from across North Carolina gathered at Elon March 22 for the first meeting of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition. The group includes newspaper executives, broadcasters, lawyers and librarians. Details...
According to a March 10 Associated Press story, the coalition “will attempt to make government more accessible for everyone from investigative reporters to citizens trying to find old property records.”
Frank Barrows, managing editor of The Charlotte Observer, and Melanie Sill, executive editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh, have spent nine months organizing the new group. They were welcomed to the Elon campus by President Leo M. Lambert and Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications.
North Carolina is one of only a few states in the country that does not have such a group. A similar group in Virginia was formed in 1996.