WUWM Milwaukee Public Media
By Joy Powers
March 13, 2018
It's Sunshine Week, and that's not a crack about the weather. The annual event is an effort led by news organizations, that seeks to inform people about their right to access public information. It's a right that has had many enemies – both historically and currently – but it's also a right that has endured many tests.
As a young journalist in Madison, David Pritchard found himself testing the strength of this right. Pritchard is now a journalism professor at UW-Milwaukee, but in the 1970s he was on the opposing side of the state's university system when he sued UW-Madison for access to public records.
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