| Right to Know Week
Published: June 09, 1997
Last Updated: August 19, 1999
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Check List for Editors
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Please make a commitment to take part in "Your Right to Know" week June
29 to July 5.
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Appoint a top editor to direct the project.
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Decide how you will adapt "Your Right to Know" week for your newspaper.
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Announce the project to the news staff.
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Schedule short workshops on open-government laws if you think reporters
and editors need a primer.
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Develop stories, editorials, columns and cartoons for the week. You also
may use guest columns and cartoons provided in this packet.
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Write a Page 1 brief to use daily explaining the reason to celebrate the
people’s right to know or use one of the briefs provided in this packet.
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At news meetings, discuss which specific stories in your newspaper should
carry the "Your Right to Know" logo.
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Please send ALL of the "Your Right to Know" tearsheets from the entire
week to: ASNE, Right to Know, 11690B Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA,
20191-1409. Tearsheets will be used in a study of the results.
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