For journalists covering regulatory change

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• Health and safety — EPA, OSHA, CDC, public health alerts. Browse feed
• Telecom and technology — FCC, FTC, state privacy regulators. Browse feed

Every feed is also available as RSS. Add /rss to the end of any category or agency page URL.

Every regulatory change gets a dedicated page with everything you need to report on it:

• Full text of the original document, extracted from the agency source
• Archived snapshot with detection timestamp
• Agency, authority, effective date, comment deadlines
• Docket IDs, document numbers, CFR references
• Direct link to the primary source on the agency website
• Stable permalink for citations

Every link in your story is a promise to your reader that the source will still be there. Agency websites break that promise constantly. Guidance gets quietly revised. Warning letters disappear from lists. Federal Register entries get reshuffled during redesigns. Whole pages vanish between administrations.

GovPing pages don't.

Here's what we commit to, as a permanent policy:

• URLs are permanent. Once a change page is published, the URL never changes. The slug is generated on creation and locked. A citation from today will resolve in five years.
• The archived text stays. We snapshot the full source document at detection time. If the agency edits or removes the original, our copy remains as-is, with the original detection timestamp intact.
• Edits are visible, not silent. If a page is re-processed (for example, if we improve the plain-English summary), the "last updated" timestamp bumps. We don't silently rewrite history.
• No deletions without replacement. We don't remove change pages. If a page needs to be corrected for accuracy, we edit it with a visible update note, not delete it. If an agency retracts a document entirely, we mark it retracted but leave the page up so your citation still works.
• The index is permanent. Every change we've ever detected is in the database, forever. Nothing gets pruned for storage.

If GovPing ever gets shut down, we'll publish the full historical archive as a downloadable dataset so no citation breaks. That promise is built into the mission.

Every change page has a "Copy citation" button that generates a ready-to-paste reference.

AP style:

Chicago / academic:

What you can cite as primary source:

• Publication date, effective date, comment deadlines
• Agency name and authority
• Docket and document IDs
• CFR references
• The source document text (we archive it — the original may change)

What you should not cite as primary source:

• Plain-English summaries (AI-generated, clearly labeled on every page)
• Classifications like "urgent" or "priority review" (also AI-generated)
• The "what to do next" sections

When in doubt, link directly to the agency's original document. Every GovPing page has a "View original document" button that points to the primary source.

You can freely cite, quote, link to, and screenshot GovPing pages in your reporting. You can pull from any RSS feed without attribution if the story is about the underlying regulatory change itself. If you reference GovPing as your source of discovery ("according to a tracker that monitors regulatory change..."), a link is appreciated but not required.

If you need bulk data access, historical archives, or an API for automated reporting, email [email protected]. We set this up for verified journalists for free.

We're actively expanding coverage. If there's a regulator, agency, or court docket you cover that isn't in GovPing yet, send the URL to [email protected] and we'll add it.

We don't pitch stories. We don't do embargoed releases. We're not trying to get mentioned in your article.

But if our data is useful for something you're already reporting — pulling historical records, confirming a regulatory timeline, explaining the annotation schema, finding adjacent filings — email [email protected] and we'll help.

Press contact: [email protected]