WASHINGTON, DC - The Sunlight Foundation unveiled today Real Time Investigations (realtime.sunlightprojects.org/), an unprecedented open source journalism effort that instantaneously reveals the behind-the-scenes research involved in petitioning the federal government to make its information more accessible to citizens, constituents and journalists.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new distributed reporting project to unveil which Senator yesterday placed a secret hold on legislation that would require Senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically. Unlike the House of Representatives, the Senate is only required to file these statements in paper format, which is difficult to search through and analyze.