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Sqoop, site used by biz reporters, adds DOJ documents

Sqoop, the site that helps business journalists find stories in Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filings, has added Department of Justice documents to its database.

David Kellum of Sqoop writes, “As a result of your answers, we prioritized adding U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publications. This includes:

Press releases and speech transcripts from the top-level DOJ Office of Public Affairs
Releases from 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices (USAOs) associated with each federal district court¹

“The Office of Public Affairs covers the highest profile DOJ activity. Releases from the Attorney’s Offices provide significantly more detail on many cases than what we can cost effectively obtain via PACER, including complaint and indictment attachments, or sentencing details. We now have attorney’s office releases associated with 21 district courts that do not otherwise provide us access to docket data.

“While you may already follow some parts of the DOJ on Twitter, we now offer you better summaries, search of the full release text, and alerting for more complete coverage. The 140-character tweets often fail to give the name of the company or individual being indicted, and these characters are all that is available on Twitter for search purposes. The DOJ also offers direct email alerts via GovDelivery², but in our testing, we are able to retrieve and alert on DOJ releases much more quickly than when emails are sent from this service. See Latency below.

“We were able to retrieve and index back releases from January 1, 2014 onward, so our DOJ historic corpus is immediately comparable with our existing sources.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.