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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

Which outside group is the biggest spender this election? Sunlight's Bill Allison explains why this is so difficult to determine.
With all the great online resources for progressing the open government movement, it's important to remember the offline element and the tools we can leverage to organize, promote and host events.
The challenge in working for government transparency is that you are always working against its opposite: opacity. What we don’t see is often what's most harmful to us.
Just a few years ago crowdsourcing was a novel concept, mainly untried. Now that the idea has gained traction, it could be used in any realm -- even in government.
Recently legislation introduced in Congress would make it a lot easier for the public to access thousands of congressionally mandated reports, which often provide valuable insight into what the federal government is (or should be) doing.
As Sunlight Foundation sets the stage for advocating on local and state transparency issues, inevitably the question comes: How exactly do you go about learning more about policies in your state?
Sunlight Foundation is digging into state level transparency issues best practices. The three issues it is focusing on: ethics and campaign finance, legislative data and budget transparency.
Over the next few weeks and months, Sunlight Foundation and Public Equals Online will develop a guide on how to do state-level organizing and advocacy around transparency and open government.
On Thursday, the White House announced the winners of their Leading Practices initiative -- agencies that proactively attained a higher standard of transparency.
Being a non-partisan organization may seem ambiguous, but Sunlight Foundation maintains that transparency is something both political sides can agree on and fight for.