Survey: Journalists face restrictions from agencies
Tuesday - 3/13/2012, 7:51pm EDT
Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief, GovExec
The government says it aims for transparency, but reporters on the beat say they're not finding much.
That's according to a new Society of Professional Journalists survey.
The Society of Professional Journalists found that agency press staff subjected reporters to "alarming" rules requiring preapproval of interviews with employees, some outright prohibitions on interviews and sometimes-intrusive monitoring of interviews once they were granted. The survey was completed by 146 Washington-based reporters between Jan. 23 and Feb. 24.
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief at Government Executive magazine, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the survey and what it says about federal agencies and how they work — or don't — with journalists.
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