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Articles tagged FOIA (25)

Hanaa' TameezNovember 18, 2021

Journalism school is broken and expensive. Jessica Huseman will teach you for cheap(er).

“If I was queen for a day, what I would honestly do is fire every journalism professor and hire adjuncts working in the field. That’s, like, my dream.”

David CuillierApril 6, 2020

Governments are using the coronavirus to hide information from reporters and citizens

The public is being kept out of government meetings, denied responses to record requests, and prevented from learning important facts about COVID-19 response.

Christine SchmidtJune 11, 2018

In the hunt for sustainability, DocumentCloud and MuckRock are joining together as one organization

“It’s a much better problem to have: How are you going to make those all work together, rather than how are you going to make it work at all.”

With $440,000 in funding, MuckRock is expanding its mission to improve access to public records

Shan WangJuly 11, 2017

The freedom-of-speech institute suing @realDonaldTrump to unblock his critics on Twitter has its eye on other lawsuits, too

“Part of the reason we took this case on is that we have seen reports from across the country of public officials blocking their constituents on Twitter or Facebook.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 15, 2017

FOIA the Dead uses The New York Times’ obituaries to shine a light on FBI surveillance, for the living

“The dream of doing this is to uncover someone that you would not expect to be under FBI surveillance, and discover that they are.”

Twice the FOIA fun: MuckRock bulks up its records request resources with the free FOIA Machine tool

Shan WangSeptember 30, 2016

As government records move from paper to email to channels like Slack, how should FOIA keep up?

“I have a love-hate relationship with FOIA.”

Michael MorisySeptember 7, 2016

Michael Morisy: Making government officials’ emails open to scrutiny is key to accountability

“When you work in government, the people are your boss. And the boss has a right to see your work.”

Joseph LichtermanJuly 14, 2016

MuckRock is launching a national database of FOIA exemptions

“One of the things that MuckRock focused on in the beginning was to de-intimidate requests. We want to do the same thing with the appeals process.”

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