In both meteorology and metaphor, the sun came out Thursday in Columbia.
If you ventured outside, you got a hint of spring. If you ventured into the Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU, you got an introduction to a new service that holds for journalists and normal people alike the possibility of easier access to the workings of our state and local governments.
This is, in case you’ve missed the news, Sunshine Week, which — as I’ve written previously — is a kind of gimmick created by journalists and our fellow travelers in hopes of drawing public attention to the value of openness in government. Not altogether coincidentally, journalists also hope to remind you of the value of what we do in reporting on the activities of government at all levels.
And that brings me back to Thursday and to OpenMissouri.org. That’s a new website developed over the past few months by David Herzog and a team of graduate students. David is an experienced journalist who usually teaches computer-assisted reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism. He’s currently a fellow of the Reynolds Institute. OpenMissouri.org is his fellowship project.
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