Tag Archive: Sunlight Live

Sunlight Live’s State of the Union Coverage

by Ellen Miller Jan 26, 2011 8:35 pm

Last night the Sunlight Foundation’s award-winning Sunlight Live platform covered the State of the Union with context and fact-checking from... View Article

Follow the State of the Union with Sunlight Live

by Joshua Hatch

investigations

Jan 25, 2011 1:10 pm

When President Barack Obama makes his second State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET, tune into sunlightlive.com to watch the speech with real-time reporting and context. Using our award-winning Sunlight Live platform, we'll be live blogging the president's speech and the responses by Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn.

In addition to Sunlight reporters, our live blog will feature reporters from CQ Roll Call, the National Journal, the Center for Public Integrity and the Huffington Post.

Alongside the live video stream and blog, Sunlight Live features what we like to call ...

Watch the State of the Union on Sunlight Live

by Ellen Miller Jan 25, 2011 12:36 pm

Tonight the Sunlight Foundation will cover President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union using our award-winning Sunlight Live platform of... View Article

Join Sunlight on Election Night for Live Reporting of the Money Behind the Winners

by Ellen Miller Oct 29, 2010 1:57 pm

This election season, we’ve tracked (in real time) the explosion of outside spending – now at $427 million and climbing,... View Article

Knight Foundation Awards Sunlight New Grant for “National Data Apps” & Sunlight Live

by Ellen Miller Oct 18, 2010 2:25 pm

I’m thrilled to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation just announced a new $1.2 million two-year... View Article

The Future: Government Transparency and Tracking Money in Politics

by Ellen Miller Sep 14, 2010 5:46 pm

Today, I humbly accepted the Knight Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism for our interactive reporting platform, Sunlight Live. I’ve... View Article

Knight-Batten Winners

by Ellen Miller Jul 20, 2010 11:14 am

I was traveling earlier this week when the Knight-Batten Awards were announced and so I wanted to add my two... View Article

Sunlight Live Wins Knight-Batten Award!

by Noah Kunin Jul 19, 2010 4:41 pm

I’m thrilled to announce that our real-time investigative reporting platform, Sunlight Live, has won the prestigious Knight-Batten Award for Innovation... View Article

Do you know where your lobbyist is? He’s on Sunlight Live!

by Noah Kunin Jul 16, 2010 6:41 pm

Whether you’re a gun owner, a home builder, an environmentalist or all of the above, you probably have no idea... View Article

Financial reform moves to Senate vote

by Ryan Sibley

investigations

May 20, 2010 4:49 pm

After a second procedural vote this afternoon, the Senate was able to shut down debate on S. 3217, Restoring American Financial Stability. Exactly three-fifths of the senate, including 3 Republicans, voted in favor of the motion, which passed 60-40. Two Democrats voted no.

It is likely that the final vote on the bill will be as early as tomorrow.

The newly elected senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, joined the two Republican Senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, in delivering yes votes. In a statement, Brown said he was assured by Sen. Reid, D-Nev., that “the issues related to ...