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Q & A: Lucy Dalglish and Jennifer Lynch

Two open government experts talk about the year’s top FOIA issues

The FOIA Watchdog chats with Lucy Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Jennifer Lynch,... More

Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines

Losing the count

It's appropriate that the red, the color of passion and anger, represents the female male slice of the pie in... More

My Lawyer, Myself

Suing the government for access to info, pro se

Inside well-funded newsrooms, investigative reporters can usually turn to company lawyers for help with stalled public records requests. But independent... More

Q&A: Michael Morisy, Co-Founder of MuckRock

On helping journalists with their public records requests

MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May 2010, when... More

To Sue or Not to Sue?

The first two years of OGIS

Last June in Las Vegas, Corinna Zarek told a ballroom full of investigative journalists at the annual Investigative Reporters and... More

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican

What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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