Mon, Apr 08
|Cone Park Branch Library
2024 Brechner Freedom of Information Center Award Winners
Go and Visit!
Time & Location
Apr 08, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Cone Park Branch Library , 2801 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32641, USA
About the event
Event by Florida Free Speech Forum
April 8th from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm with Miami Herald investigative journalists Sarah Blaskey, Joey Flechas, and Casey Frank
Please register by Monday, April 1st.
Register on their website: https://www.floridafreespeechforum.org/.../brechner.../
Three investigative journalists from The Miami Herald will discuss their award-winning reporting about Miami corruption at a public luncheon April 8 in Gainesville hosted by the Florida Free Speech Forum. The Miami Herald won the annual 2024 Brechner Freedom of Information Award for “Shakedown City,” an investigation into government shenanigans within the city of Miami that spawned a series of investigations by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and state ethics commission. The award is administered by the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
The journalists submitted more than 150 public records requests and battled almost daily with city attorneys…