You might have heard: U.S. Court of Appeals upheld broad FOIA fee exemptions for media, emphasizing that web-based publishers are entitled to waivers as newspapers (Politico)
But did you know: With the exception of The New York Times, no legacy news organization sued the federal government under FOIA in 2014, but Trevor Timm writes that digital-only organizations are starting to fill the gap in FOIA reporting and lawsuits. BuzzFeed assistant general counsel Nabiha Syed says BuzzFeed is planning to release its own “sunshine report” later this year that will show “where all their records requests go, how long agencies take to respond to them, how many denials they’re getting, and who is doing the denying.” BuzzFeed is also applying A/B testing to its FOIA request process, with the goal of tracking how agencies respond to different kinds of requests.
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