Federal Freedom of Information Act
The following lesson was provided to Connecticut Public, WSHU and New England News Collaborative partners on August 18, 2022.
About Your Instructor
Michael Morisy is MuckRock’s chief executive. He was previously an editor at the Boston Globe, where he launched the paper’s technology vertical BetaBoston. He is currently a 2018-19 nonresidential fellow at Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. He was a 2014-15 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a 2012-13 Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Network Fellow at Harvard University. He graduated in 2007 from Cornell University with a degree in English.
Prerequisite Viewing
• Introduction to Federal FOIA
• Federal FOIA Appeals
Additional Federal FOIA Lessons
• 3 Requests 3 Stories
• How Newsrooms Fight FOIA Denials
Additional Resources
• U.S. Dept. of Education Civil Rights Investigations
• MuckRock: List of FOI Requests