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Japanese journalists have been training citizens in North Korea to take audio and video recordings of everyday life in an effort to document the hardships, including food shortages, prevalent there. Meet the man behind the training, Jiro Ishimaru.
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A new lawsuit filed by truth-out.org asks a court to tell agenices to comply with a provision in FOIA law that requires the government to give requesters an estimated date for responding to a request.
A new federal "FOIA Portal" could launch this fall.
Seven of 15 Cabinet departments apparently have missed their Feb. 1 deadline for filing annual FOIA reports.
Florida, as a center of the housing boom, still struggles to recover from the Great Recession. Financial stresses and widespread foreclosures have placed families in precarious situations, resulting in a spike in child homelessness. Susannah Nesmith reports in the Broward Bulldog.
Among the many employees who may lose their jobs because of American Airlines' plans to restructure are those in maintenance, including 1,200 mechanics in Fort Worth. American was the last legacy carrier that did the bulk of its maintenance in-house. And as we found in our report last year, that shift to outsourcing maintenance has led to safety concerns.
We publish online and in print, often teaming up with other news organizations. We post quarterly updates to our BankTracker project, in which you can view the financial health of every bank and credit union in the country, with msnbc.com, and we co-publish stories in our What Went Wrong project with The Philadelphia Inquirer and New America Media. Learn more on our partners page.
Donald Barlett and James Steele are revisiting America: What Went Wrong, their landmark 1991 newspaper series, in a new project with the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Over the next year, the project team will examine how four decades of public policy has shaped America's ongoing economic crisis.
