About MuckRock

We give you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable.

MuckRock Foundation is a nonprofit, collaborative news site and public resource that brings together journalists, researchers, activists and regular citizens to request, analyze and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed.

MuckRock provides a repository of hundreds of thousands of pages of original government materials, information on how to file requests and tools to make the requesting process easier. MuckRock is committed to supporting engaging, transparent journalism through projects like DocumentCloud, which thousands of newsrooms use to analyze, annotate and publish primary source documents and oTranscribe, a browser utility that makes transcribing audio files easier. Our Accounts service allows external projects like Big Local and Agenda Watch to make their tools available to newsrooms and journalists, without duplicating our account verification infrastructure.

For over 15 years, MuckRock has empowered journalists, researchers, and the public with the tools they need to hold power to account and shine a light on government transparency.  MuckRock is committed to supporting engaging, transparent journalism through projects like:

• MuckRock Requests and FOIA Machine, which facilitate thousands of transparency requests each year.
• DocumentCloud, which thousands of newsrooms use to analyze, annotate and publish primary source documents.
• oTranscribe, a browser utility that makes transcribing audio files easier. 
• Partnering with Big Local News and Agenda Watch, who make their tools available to verified MuckRock users for easy access.
• Resources to help foster transparency including our FOIA Slack and FOIAFriday events.
• Original Reporting from our editorial team, including both collaborative and independent reporting efforts on issues of public importance. MuckRock's unique form of investigative and accountability journalism has produced projects on government spending, surveillance and public health and safety. Learn more about our editorial mission, policies and republication guidelines here. 

MuckRock’s original and collaborative journalism projects have led to both federal and state policy change across the United States, inspired government transparency offshoots in other countries and has been awarded dozens of awards for its work. For more information about MuckRock’s impact, our project page is updated with our latest coverage and includes open-records requests filed on MuckRock, methodologies, case studies and data repositories.

MuckRock is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION).