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Axios / Sara Fischer / Jan 19, 2021

Buzzfeed News led media companies in FOIA filings during the Trump years, followed by The New York Times. —SS

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Scire, Sarah. "The media filed more FOIA requests in the Trump era than in 16 years of the Bush and Obama administrations combined." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Jan. 2021. Web. 16 Dec. 2024.

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Scire, S. (2021, Jan. 19). The media filed more FOIA requests in the Trump era than in 16 years of the Bush and Obama administrations combined. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/more-foia-requests-were-filed-in-the-trump-era-than-all-16-years-of-the-bush-and-obama-administrations-combined/

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Scire, Sarah. "The media filed more FOIA requests in the Trump era than in 16 years of the Bush and Obama administrations combined." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 19, 2021. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/more-foia-requests-were-filed-in-the-trump-era-than-all-16-years-of-the-bush-and-obama-administrations-combined/.

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