Here are the journalists fighting for federal public records
By Benjamin Mullin and Alexios Mantzarlis, Poynter, Dec. 2, 2016
Media executives are fond of making big speeches about the importance of press freedom. But which organizations are actually spending time and money on it?
A new, searchable list from The FOIA project, a initiative from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, provides a partial answer. Earlier this week, TRAC published The News Media List, a sortable readout of the news organizations and journalists that have filed lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act.
To compile the list, staffers at The FOIA Project spent a year combing through its database of nearly 9,000 plaintiff names for cases filed in federal courts since 2001. They flagged cases with media plaintiffs to come up with an initial list that includes 369 individual journalists and news organizations.
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