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Noah Kunin

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Noah Kunin is the Multimedia Content Producer for the Sunlight Foundation. He leads the conceptualization and production of high-quality, creative and persuasive visual content that works in concert with articles and initiatives across the Sunlight Foundation's network. He also works with the latest technologies and open video community to connect government data to video content.

Noah has an eclectic background in video journalism, government, genetic engineering and non-profit technology management. Before Sunlight, he was the Senior Political Correspondent for The UpTake, a citizen-fueled, online video news gathering organization known for its exhaustive live-streaming coverage of the 2008 Recount and Election Contest Trial between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Noah can be found on Twitter: @noahkunin

Just as there is now a new cap being fitted over the leaking oil well, patching a mechanical failure, Sunlight Foundation is left wondering whether the now-defunct Minerals Management Service will be fixed as well.
USA.gov just launched the new design of their website. Since we took a stab at redesigning it ourselves back in January 2009, Sunlight Foundation thought it would see if they took any of its advice.
The Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United v. FEC case has rendered 24 state election laws unconstitutional. The Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group has decided to report what each state is doing to respond to the highly-contested ruling. We’re going state by state, and now onto South Dakota.
The Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group has decided to report what states are doing to respond to the highly-contested Citizens United v FEC ruling. We’ll go state by state, starting with Arizona.
What happens when earmarked money isn't spent?
With few exceptions, data sets being released were not assembled with the explicit intention of being made public, nor scrutinized. What we need to do is provide ways for the government community to address the state, quality and lineage of a data set--and encourage them to publish it anyway.
When it comes to directing some sunlight at the courts, there are many more transparency measures to consider.
Sunlight's Policy Counsel wrote about his curiosity regarding the differences between the House and Senate versions of the DISCLOSE Act, legislation that responds to the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision in Citizens United. Today, he has his answer.
Sunlight couldn’t agree more with the name of the bill introduced today by Senator Schumer and Representatives Van Hollen and Castle: Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections (the DISCLOSE Act).