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
