On Friday, May 20, 2022, the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute hosted a remote panel discussion entitled “My First FOIA: Open records are for everyone.” The three panelists were: (1) Kirsten Mitchell, the compliance team lead for the Office of Government Information Services, which is the federal FOIA ombudsman, and designated federal officer for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s FOIA Advisory Committee; (2) Lulu Ramadan, an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times and a distinguished fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network; and (3) Mark Walker, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, where he previously was its FOIA coordinator, and the president of Investigative Reporters & Editors.
The 58-minute video is here.