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    DocumentCloud Passes Major Milestone: 1 Million Pages Uploaded

    by Amanda Hickman
    March 1, 2011

    DocumentCloud’s Jeremy Ashkenas collaborated on this post.

    It has been less than a year since DocumentCloud began adding users to our beta. Late Monday morning, a user uploaded our millionth page of primary source documents.

    The thousands of documents in our catalog have arrived in small batches: five pages here, twenty there. The vast majority of the 65,000 documents that those million pages comprise remain private, but we’re fast closing in on 10,000 public documents in our catalog.

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    Broad Appeal

    Journalists are using DocumentCloud to publish all sorts of documents, including these:

    Remaking History

    Documents in our catalog reach back into the past, as well. In 1970 Ruben Salazar was killed by police while covering an anti-war protest in east Los Angeles. A story rife with controversy, questions, and suspicions, his death became a rallying point in the Mexican American civil rights movement. Forty years later — after refusing a public records request for documents that might shed some light on the circumstances of his death — the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department agreed to turn the files over to the Office of Independent Review.

    While Los Angeles Times reporters waited for the report, they assembled their own folio of early clippings on Ruben Salazar. Readers can review FBI files obtained by the Times in 1999 and LAPD records on the department’s repeated clashes with the journalist as well as a draft of the report prepared by the Office of Independent Review.

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    You can browse recently published documents by searching for “filter: published“ or read up on other searches you might want to run. Here’s hoping that the next year brings millions more pages, and more great document-driven reporting.

    Tagged: center for public integrity documentcloud epa la times lapd ny times public records ruben salazar seattle times

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