How Reporters Used FOIA to Cover Cyclospora Outbreak

by Randy Miller | Aug 20, 2026 | FDA, FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Twenty-One Requests from News Media, Non-Profits and Companies The nationwide outbreak of cyclospora infections this summer prompted a steady stream of national and local news articles, along with 21 Freedom of Information Act requests to the Food and Drug...

How Media Requesters Used FOIA to Probe Trump GLP-1 Mystery

by John A. Jenkins | Jul 30, 2026 | FDA, FOIA, News Media, Pharmaceuticals, Politics

FOIAengine: Multiple News Outlets Sought Details on “Compassionate Use” Within days of a Stat News report describing a highly unusual government decision to grant a 79-year-old patient early access to Eli Lilly’s experimental obesity drug retatrutide, some of the...

FOIA Requests Probe Education Department Dismantling

by Randy Miller | Jul 1, 2026 | Education, FOIA, News Media, Non-Profits, Politics

FOIAengine: Requests Focus on Personnel Levels and Fraud News media and non-profit organizations are using the Freedom of Information Act to monitor the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education, according to data compiled by FOIAengine, which...

Reporters Pry for Answers at the FCC as Skeptics Push Back

by Randy Miller | Jun 11, 2026 | FCC, FOIA, News Media

FOIAengine: News Organizations Pursue Evidence in Trump vs. Kimmel Feud A burst of late-April Freedom of Information Act requests saw multiple news organizations converging on the same question: when the Federal Communications Commission initiated an early review of...

Perp Walk: “Wild West” Gold Rush in a $90 Trillion Market

by John A. Jenkins | Jun 4, 2026 | CFTC, Cryptocurrency, FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Requests Pile Up, As State and Federal Lawmakers Square Off Months before the regulatory chaos around prediction markets exploded into courtrooms, state houses, and the White House, sophisticated observers were already paying attention. More than 170...

News Media FOIA Requests Target EPA’s Zeldin

by Randy Miller | Apr 22, 2026 | EPA, FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Journalists Seek EPA Communications on Iran Bombing A small circle of reporters – concentrated overwhelming at one news organization – is using the Freedom of Information Act to run what amounts to a systematic, real-time audit of Environmental Protection...