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Public notices in newspapers are part of the three-legged stool of government accountability. Public notices help to inform the public on activities by the government and other public entities. ...
Aug 1, 2023
Learning from the master: How Jim Lockwood weaves award-winning journalism out of public notices
Sep 18, 2024
Named in 2023 by the Public Notice Resource Center, the Michael Kramer Best Public Notice Journalism Award — part of the NNA Foundation's Better Newspaper Contest — honors the best reporting ...
Jun 26, 2024
Agencies responsible for issuing public notices failed to meet requirements about 6,000 times per year on average. As a result, citizens were not notified that the Safe Drinking Water Act passed by Congress ...
May 1, 2024
Consider these examples I encountered during my tenure as editor.
Mar 1, 2024
I think it is very important that public notice remain in newspapers, and I don’t mean that to be self-serving in any way. Let me give you a better understanding of where I’m coming from.
Mar 1, 2024
Public notice legislation introduced so far in 2024 suggests state legislatures are growing increasingly comfortable allowing news websites to serve as an alternative source of official notice. That comfort ...
Jan 1, 2024
2023 was a lot like 2022: A pretty good year marred primarily by the vote of a GOP-dominated state legislature to allow some local governments to publish notices on their own websites in lieu of local ...
Dec 1, 2023
Townships in Ohio are seeking the same power already granted to municipalities in the state: the power to publish notice via the internet instead of a local newspaper.