Join MuckRock staff for a look back at 2018 in reporting, requests, and black bars. So many black bars.

MuckRock published over twice as many articles in 2017 as we did last year, which necessitated breaking this year in review into two parts. Let’s pick up where we left off, just in time for FOIA’s 51st birthday.

This year saw our 10,000th completed FOIA request, a grant that allowed us to finally hire our founders full time, and the release of millions of pages of Central Intelligence Agency records as a result of our lawsuit. Here are the stories, big and small, you helped uncover this year.

This year saw the release of MuckRock’s one millionth page of government records released under FOIA, and what’s more, half of that is from 2016 alone. Here are the stories, big and small, you helped uncover this year.

We filed nearly as many requests in 2015 as we did in our previous five years combined, releasing over 350,000 pages of government documents. And that’s just the beginning - here’s the stories, big and small, you helped uncover this year.