SPJ, AHJC Want Obama Administration To Address Information Control

The Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) have called on the Obama Administration to end the practice of prohibiting federal agency staffers from talking with reporters unless those conversations are "tracked and monitored" by the public relations office. That request came earlier this month in response to the Obama Administration's ongoing call for input on how to make government more open and accessible.