DocumentCloud is a platform founded on the belief that if journalists were more open about their sourcing, the public would be more inclined to trust their reporting. The platform is a tool to help journalists share, analyze, annotate and, ultimately, publish source documents to the open web. DocumentCloud is a part of the MuckRock Foundation, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to trust and transparency. Contact us with questions about accounts or using DocumentCloud.

DocumentCloud was founded in 2009 with a grant from the Knight News Challenge . After two years as an independent nonprofit organization, DocumentCloud became a project of Investigative Reporters and Editors in June 2011. In August 2017, DocumentCloud was spun off from IRE and again became an an independent nonprofit organization, before merging with the MuckRock Foundation the next year.