Los Angeles Times
About 30 journalists, along with three TV camera crews, had been crammed into a small space in a state administrative building in Juneau on Friday, waiting for the release of boxes filled with 25,000 printed emails stemming from Palin's tenure as governor.
Nearby, the boxes were stacked up and waiting for representatives of approximately 20 news organizations to grab them and take them from the building in a scene that promised to be fairly chaotic. Each organization was to be given six boxes
"It could be fun," said the Los Angeles Times' Ken Schwenke, who was part of the scrum waiting to rush the room where the boxes were stacked. The state of Alaska is releasing the emails in paper form; several news organizations are scanning them to turn them into electronic, searchable documents.
The Times' Data Desk is one of those scanning the documents and posting them online, making each available in a searchable archive.
Readers will have the ability to submit comments and suggestions on the page, or by emailing The Times at documents@latimes.com.
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