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Sunshine Week Logo Modified for Year-round Use

Published: May 05, 2005
Last Updated: May 05, 2005

Media Contact:
Debra Gersh Hernandez
Coordinator, Sunshine Week
(703) 807-2100, ext. 130
dghernandez@asne.org

FOR RELEASE: MAY 5, 2005

Arlington, Va.—The logo developed for Sunshine Week: Your Right to Know has been modified for use year-round. The modified look incorporates the blue and yellow imagery of the sun shining over a capital building that morphs into an open folder, but it drops the Sunshine Week tag, replacing it with the tagline, Your Right to Know.

"This is a great way to keep the momentum gained from Sunshine Week in March," explained Andrew Alexander, Cox Newspapers' Washington bureau chief and chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Information Committee.

The modified logo is available in horizontal and vertical formats on the Sunshine Week Web site, www.sunshineweek.org/sunshine/yourrighttoknowlogo. The logo can be used in color or black and white.

"By tagging open-government and freedom of information stories with the logo, we can remind readers that these stories are made possible by access to government records and meetings," Alexander said. "The first national Sunshine Week generated such a phenomenal response—from both the public and the media participants. We'd hate to see it addressed only one week of the year, particularly in light of the Missouri School of Journalism survey that found more than eight in 10 adults believe journalists should keep pushing for information, even when government officials would rather withhold it." (The survey results are online at www.journalism.missouri.edu/news/releases/2005/04-27-love-hate-journalism.html.)

Well over 500 newspapers—and counting—in print and online, ran an editorial, article, or something about Sunshine Week from March 13-19. Next year's Sunshine Week already is in the works, slated for March 12-18, 2006. Information and resources will be posted regularly on the Sunshine Week Web site, www.sunshineweek.org.