Whatever competitive edge accrues to a Freedom of Information Act request could soon vanish as seven federal agencies start putting records online as they're distributed to FOIA requesters: "Of course, it has always been possible to scoop other journalists digging through government documents," Poynter's Benjamin Mullin writes. "But this new policy will eliminate some of the guesswork involved in figuring out what rival publications are up to."
July 14, 2015
