FOIA and the federal government
The Food and Drug Administration’s response to journalists’ Freedom of Information Act requests is so slow that the data often is no longer relevant or newsworthy by the time it is provided, according to a survey of journalists who have filed FOIA requests with the FDA in the past 10 years.
The survey project, conducted by two groups of Medill graduate students in the Washington program in Fall and Winter Quarters, was done for the Association of Health Care Journalists as part of its Right to Know efforts.
Brendan McKenna and Sonia Nezamzadeh presented the findings at the AHCJ annual conference on March 29.
“This design of the survey, the methodology for finding the journalists among all those who filed FOIA requests, the analysis of the survey data and the related reporting to flesh out the data results – all of this was conceived and carried out by the students,” said Medill News Service Washington Director Ellen Shearer, who also is the William F. Thomas professor of journalism. “I was impressed by the teamwork and hard work.”
The students involved in the project were Adam Amaro, Sarah Baicker, Jessica Desvarieux, Dianna Heitz, Benjamin Helfrich, Lis Kilpatrick, Rebecca Knowles, Kelly Mahoney, Brendan McKenna, Sonia Nezamzadeh, Andrew Segal, Hayley Wielgus.
FOIA & the FDA
The survey project, conducted by two groups of Medill graduate students in the Washington program in Fall and Winter Quarters, was done for the Association of Health Care Journalists as part of its Right to Know efforts
FOIA & The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
FOIA & The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medill School of JournalismNorthwestern University Research compiled byHallie D. Martin Table of Contents I. Introduction…………………………….3 II. Timeline………………………………..4 III. Findings & Analysis ………………...5 6 IV. Conclusion.....………………….………7 V. What the Experts
