The good and bad of FOIA at 50

The federal Freedom of Information Act marks its golden anniversary this year, and John Dyer writes about the journalists who use it and the obstacles they face: "Even as FOIA remains vital and relevant, cultural shifts in the past 50 years have exposed its shortcomings, sometimes in ironic ways." Also, a high school journalism student gets an $8,000 bill for a records request. And the biggest threat to the press in 2015.

January 19, 2016

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