Your Right To Know: How To Use The Freedom Of Infromation Act And Other Access Laws: How to Use the Freedom of Information Act and Other Access Laws - Brossura

Brooke, Heather

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745322727 ISBN 13: 9780745322728

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2004

Riassunto

-- A popular guide to the Freedom of Information Act, now updated in a new edition -- Have you ever wanted to force open the secretive doors of government? This book provides all the tools you need. With a new foreword by Ian Hislop, it's also fully upda

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Heather Brooke is a campaigner for open government and a freelance writer with articles published in The Times, The Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, New Statesman, BBC History and Journalist magazines. She was a runner-up for the inaugural Paul Foot award for investigative journalism. She has been interviewed on Sky news, The Politics Show on BBC One, BBC Radio 4 (The Message, You & Yours, The World Tonight), BBC Radio 5 Live, and BBC Radio Two’s Jeremy Vine show. Heather currently teaches the ‘FOIA and investigative journalism’ course for the National Union of Journalists. She has trained journalists at the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Trinity Mirror newspapers, BBC News and BBC World Service.

Heather Brooke worked in the United States as a newspaper reporter. She used the American FOI Act to uncover politicians misuse of public funds for travel and personal election campaigning. Later, as a crime reporter in South Carolina for a New York Times regional newspaper, she uncovered flaws in the state’s forensic crime lab and exposed dangerous practices in funeral homes. Both investigations resulted in changes to state law

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0745322727
• ISBN 13: 9780745322728
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile