Public Records 101 With Dave Cuellier

Join SPJ-NE for this Public Records 101 Training by former SPJ President Dave Cuillier.

This training is part of SPJ-NE’s monthly national FOIA contest for students. The chapter received a generous grant from the SPJ Foundation to hold the contest and partnered with MuckRock and the New England First Amendment Coalition to run the contest.

Dave is currently the Director of The Freedom of Information Project at the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida.

He started his career as a newspaper reporter and editor in the Pacific Northwest, covering local, state and federal government, before earning his doctorate in communication in 2006 at Washington State University. During the past 17 years at the University of Arizona, he has taught data journalism, media law, media ethics, access to public records, and other courses, and served as school director from 2011-18.

In 2013-14, Cuillier served as national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, the largest and most broad-based organization of journalists in the nation, and in 2016 was awarded the Wells Memorial Key Award, the highest honor bestowed by SPJ for service to the profession. He also has served as head of the Media Law & Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.