Freedom of Information

The Author: Shannon E. Martin is Professor of Communication at the University of Maine. She is the author of Bits, Bytes and Big Brother: Federal Information Control in the Technological Age (1995) and Post-Vietnam Confrontations: U.S. Wars and the Media in Primary Documents (2005). She is also co-author with Kathleen A. Hansen of Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link (1998), and co-editor with David Copeland of The Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective (2003).

«Shannon E. Martin’s account of the evolution of Freedom of Information policy and practice in the United States provides historical context for students, journalists, and activists – in fact, for anyone who cares about the future of open government in a democratic society.» (Jane E. Kirtley, University of Minnesota)