NEWS

News items are listed by the date on which they occured. For that reason, some are added which don't appear at the top of this page. The most recent items will appear on the homepage and not yet here. Additionally, sound and video files are occasionally added to existing news items. If you are a regular visitor to this site, it is worth scanning the entire page from time to time to ensure that you are not missing anything. [UPDATED 2/14/08]

September 17, 2007. David Weil was a keynote speaker at the Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government Symposium, Auburn University and the National Endowment for Public Trust in Washington, D.C. He delivered his talk, “Making Transparency Work” at the National Press Club.

November 5, 2007. An article in Government Health IT focused on public policy and the Transparency Policy Project and includes a number of quotes by David Weil.

June 2007. Policy brief written for the Brookings Institution: "How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now," By Mary Graham and Elena Fagotto. See Brookings Institution Policy Brief #16.

May 20, 2007. Full Disclosure reviewed in The American Prospect. Read the review.

May 1, 2007. Mary Graham appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, discussing transparency and Full Disclosure with Jeffrey Brown. Both audio and video here.

May 1, 2007. Discussion about transparency and Full Disclosure between Mary Graham and Jeffrey Brown on the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Both audio and video here. For a full-frame version of the video (larger image) go here. (Note that you will need Apple Quicktime to view this version, available here if you don't have it.)

April 18, 2007. The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed Full Disclosure. Read it here.

April 11, 2007: A panel discussion with the three Full Disclosure authors was held at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University's Kennedy School.

 

April 10, 2007: Weil and Fung's Op-Ed piece, "Fixing the Misinformation Age," appeared in the Boston Globe. Read it here.

April 4, 2007: Compliance Week, a weekly newsletter on corporate governance, risk and compliance, made an excerpt from Full Disclosure (printed in the March 13 issue of the publication) available to the public on this page.

March 28, 2007: Weil appeared on the nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann show on Air America, discussing the need for greater transparency in government and Full Disclosure. Listen.

March 26, 2007: Fung, Graham, and Weil discussed the central ideas in Full Dislcosure at a book launch/seminar hosted at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The session was chaired by Dr. Philippa Strum, Director of the Division of United States Studies of the Wilson Center. Professor Alasdair Roberts of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, provided commentary. Listen.

March 26, 2007: Weil appeared on the Sam Litzinger Show on WTWP (Washington, D.C.) to discuss Full Disclosure. Listen.

Thursday, March 15, 2007: Fung and Weil participated in an online discussion about Full Disclosure and the issues raised in the book on the washingtonpost.com website. For a transcript, visit this page.