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Reporters for The New York Times, Mother Jones and Vice News filed the most Freedom of Information Act lawsuits in 2014, according to the group the FOIA Project.
Vice News reporter Jason Leopold filed eight freedom of information suits in 2014. Though he joined Vice News only in August, Vice is now backing Leopold's cases. Shane Bauer, a reporter for Mother Jones filed two suits. The only news organization listed as a plaintiff was the Times, which filed five suits, four of which list reporter Charlie Savage as a co-plaintiff.
ProPublica and the group that owns The Washington Examiner, MediaDC, also brought suits.
In all, more freedom of information lawsuits were brought against the federal government in 2014 than in any year since at least 2001, according to the FOIA Project.
The top defendant was the Department of Justice and its various suborganizations, such as the FBI.
But the No. 1 one filer of freedom of information suits was not a news organization: Judicial Watch filed 34 suits as a plaintiff, and even more as a counsel.
Read more from the FOIA Project here.
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