This module would not have been possible without the encouragement and support of Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation-funded Knight Citizen News Network.
Thank you also to CUNY Journalism, the journalism graduate school of the City University of New York, for outstanding videotaping and video editing support, including the work of CUNY Journalism Graduate Sebastian Bednarski and John Nolan.
Thank you to the many others who contributed to this project, including Chicago Cartoonist Mark Anderson of Andertoons; David Ardia, director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Copy Editor Eileen AJ Connelly; Robert Cox, founder of the Media Bloggers Association; Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Charles N. Davis, a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition; Maria J.K. Everett, executive director of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government; CUNY Journalism Editor in Residence Ruth Hochberger; Jane Kirtley, the Silha Professor and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication; David Moore, executive director of the Participatory Politics Foundation; Eric P. Robinson, staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center; David Schulz, partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P.; Flash Home Page Designer Duy Linh Tu; and Eric V. Turner, associate general counsel and managing director of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.