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Remember Your First FOIA?

December 1, 2012 FOIA Illinois FOIA Files, FOIA Illinois, Uncategorized 0

Robyn Dexter, a journalism major at Eastern Illinois University, wrote a column for The Daily Eastern reflecting on her first encounter with FOIAs in a Computer-Assisted Reporting class. Her conclusion?

Among many other things, we’ve learned that persistence is the ultimate key to acquiring desired information.

Amen, sister. [Read the full piece here.]

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