Access Denied: A survey of journalist access to public officials
Journalists: Please fill out the form below to share instances in which you were denied access to public officials and it impacted your reporting.
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Date of incident *
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Location *
Media organization
Optional but highly encouraged. We'll keep this confidential unless you give us explicit permission.
Government agency involved *
Is it a local, state, regional or federal agency? *
Brief description of call/lack of access *
What happened when you tried to get access to a public official?
What was the story you were pursuing?
We'll keep this confidential unless you give us explicit permission.
Breaking or non-breaking news inquiry? *
Did you work to get the information in another way (such as a public records request)? *
If lack of access killed the story, we'd like to know that, too.
How long, if at all, did this delay your reporting? *
Name
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Email
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Phone Number
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