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Articles tagged MuckRock (12)

Christine SchmidtJanuary 27, 2020

Text-for-housing-data service Outlier Media and MuckRock combine to close more information gaps around the country

The two companies are now one, and they’ll soon launch a service similar to Outlier’s Detroit project in Milwaukee.

Christine SchmidtJune 11, 2018

In the hunt for sustainability, DocumentCloud and MuckRock are joining together as one organization

“It’s a much better problem to have: How are you going to make those all work together, rather than how are you going to make it work at all.”

With $440,000 in funding, MuckRock is expanding its mission to improve access to public records

Twice the FOIA fun: MuckRock bulks up its records request resources with the free FOIA Machine tool

Shan WangSeptember 30, 2016

As government records move from paper to email to channels like Slack, how should FOIA keep up?

“I have a love-hate relationship with FOIA.”

Joseph LichtermanJuly 14, 2016

MuckRock is launching a national database of FOIA exemptions

“One of the things that MuckRock focused on in the beginning was to de-intimidate requests. We want to do the same thing with the appeals process.”

“It kept coming back to our long-term independence”: FOIA site MuckRock goes nonprofit

Joseph LichtermanSeptember 3, 2015

FOIA site MuckRock launches new efforts to let users track projects and contribute to reporting costs

MuckRock is also debuting project pages that will highlight groups of FOIA requests and let users follow specific stories.

Knight Prototype Fund announces funding for 18 new projects

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