Free webinar: Using alerts with FOIAengine

Come to this session to learn about the newest feature of FOIAengine, a research and competitive intelligence database — available free to all IRE professional members — that mines federal Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to more than 40 Cabinet departments and agencies. During this one-hour session, founders John Jenkins and Randy Miller will demonstrate how to use FOIAengine to develop story ideas and conduct research into the corporate, legal and financial information buried in FOIA requests.

This webinar is free for IRE members, but please be sure to register. All those who register will receive an email with the Zoom link the morning of the event.

Date and Time

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. (ET)

Speakers

Randy E. Miller, FOIAengine
Randy E. Miller, co-creator of FOIAengine, is a Washington lawyer, publisher, and former government official. He has developed several online information products and was a partner at Hogan Lovells, where he founded the firm’s Brussels office and represented clients on international regulatory matters. Miller also has served as a White House trade lawyer, Senior Legal Adviser to the U.S. Mission to the World Trade Organization, policy director to Senator Bob Dole, and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Yale and Georgetown Law.

John A. Jenkins, FOIAengine
John A. Jenkins, co-creator of FOIAengine, is a Washington journalist and publisher whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Washington Monthly, and elsewhere. He is a four-time recipient of the American Bar Association’s Gavel Award Certificate of Merit for his legal reporting and analysis. His most recent book is The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist, an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review. Jenkins founded Law Street Media in 2013. Prior to that, he was President of CQ Press, the textbook and reference publishing enterprise of Congressional Quarterly. He started his journalism career at BNA (now Bloomberg Industry Group). He is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s Merrill College of Journalism, and is a longtime member of the college’s Board of Visitors.

Ticket Price

• Free for current IRE members. You must still go through the ticketing/registration process so Zoom info can be sent prior to the webinar

Location

The workshop will be held online via Zoom, registered attendees will receive login information before the webinar.