Dave Maass's guest appearances

Dave Maass

CounterSpin

Reynolds HotBox

Bill Gates

Donald Trump

Murtaza Hussain

James Loewen

Shahid Buttar

Alan Greenspan

David Cay Johnston

Ralph Nader

Ari Berman

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Elliott Abrams

John Roberts

Rudy Giuliani

Stephen Miller

Carol Anderson

OwlTail

Sarah Lipton-Lubet

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"? The post Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism appeared first on FAIR.

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"? The post <a href="https://fair.org/home/sarah-lipton-lubet-on-ginni-thomas-conflict-dave-maass-on-trasparency-and-journalism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism</a> appeared first on <a href="https://fair.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FAIR</a>.

Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism

Filing public records requests is a lot like fishing, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass. In this episode of the Reynolds Hotbox, with host Lucia Starbuck and cohost Nico Colombant, Maass shares his proudest Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, when he uncovered that South Carolina corrections officials were punishing inmates for using social media. Maass even discovered that one person got 37 years in solitary confinement from cell phone use. Maass covers issues related to police surveillance, free speech and government accountability. Maass started reporting as a child when he was only eight years old. In his adult life he went on to be a muckraker, which is someone who digs into institutions in order to uncover injustices.  “Over the years I've really developed a practice of using investigative reporting techniques with the idea of exposing things, but also incorporating a component to get change," he says. "So not just putting the information out there and expecting somebody else to do something about it, but putting the information out there and figuring out how I can make that difference.” Maass is currently working on a project called Atlas of Surveillance, organized by EFF in partnership with UNR’s Reynolds School of Journalism. Take a listen to this episode of the Reynolds Hotbox to learn how Maass has accessed government records to uncover truths and why he thinks it’s so important for journalists to have these skills as well.

Filing public records requests is a lot like fishing, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass. In this episode of the Reynolds Hotbox, with host Lucia Starbuck and cohost Nico Colombant, Maass shares his proudest Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, when he uncovered that South Carolina corrections officials were punishing inmates for using social media. Maass even discovered that one person got 37 years in solitary confinement from cell phone use. Maass covers issues related to police surveillance, free speech and government accountability. Maass started reporting as a child when he was only eight years old. In his adult life he went on to be a muckraker, which is someone who digs into institutions in order to uncover injustices. “Over the years I've really developed a practice of using investigative reporting techniques with the idea of exposing things, but also incorporating a component to get change," he says. "So not just putting the information out there and expecting somebody else to do something about it, but putting the information out there and figuring out how I can make that difference.” Maass is currently working on a project called Atlas of Surveillance, organized by EFF in partnership with UNR’s Reynolds School of Journalism. Take a listen to this episode of the Reynolds Hotbox to learn how Maass has accessed government records to uncover truths and why he thinks it’s so important for journalists to have these skills as well.

Dave Maass, From Journalist to Advocate with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, A Muckraker Seeking Positive Change