The good news: Tom Hayden’s public records-based citizen journalism made a real impact in his Evanston, Illinois,-community. The bad: The personal toll of being an unpaid reporter covering politically heated stories caused him to give it up.

Freedom of the Press

The rise and fall of FOIA Gras

Tom Hayden proved the power of citizen journalism, but ultimately the burdens were too much to bear.

“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/