Afternoon Reading List 06.04.13.

Government not helping relationship with AP — The US government and the AP haven’t been on the best terms recently. But The Atlantic Wire’s Connor Simpson reported that the rocky relationship didn’t stop the Labor Department from attempting to bill the news organization more than $1 million for a FOIA request. The AP filed the request for secret email addresses of appointed administration officials. Because of the amount of work it took (50 people working for almost a month) to compile the email addresses, the Labor Department asked the news org to cover the cost.

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