Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act - Rilegato

Brooke, Heather

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ISBN 10: 0745325831 ISBN 13: 9780745325835

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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 updated to include new tips for digging out information, new template letters, an expanded directory, new examples of case law, an expanded business chapter, and a new chapter on the law in Scotland.

"Heather Brooke has written the Information Liberation Front to end the politicians' enslavement of the facts which belong to the public. . . . Bravo."
---Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse

"Heather Brooke pulls no punches when it comes to exposing how the government keeps the British public in the dark. Even better, she tells readers how they can successfully challenge the system."
---Michael Crick, BBC

"All journalists should pick up these tricks."
---Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists

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Recensione:

Information is born free, but everywhere is in chains. Heather Brooke has written the Information Liberation Front guide to end the politicians’ enslavement of the facts which belong to the public. Bravo. (Greg Palast, author The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)

Heather Brooke pulls no punches when it comes to exposing how the government, public institutions and private companies all keep the British public in the dark. Even better, she tells readers how they can successfully challenge the system using the latest public access laws. (Michael Crick, BBC journalist)

Labour had been promising freedom of information for decades. Now we are getting it we need to keep the pressure on, and this is just the book to do that. All journalists should pick up these tricks. (Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists)

Both revealing and practical, 'Your Right to Know' is a necessary antidote to the British culture of secrecy. (David Banisar, Deputy Director of Privacy International)

L'autore:

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.

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of A Rebel's Guide to Marx (2006) and Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2004). Houman Barekat is a London-based writer and editor of the literary journal Review 31. He has contributed to various publications including Tribune, Art & Music and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and has reviewed for academic journals including International Affairs and Capital and Class.

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• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0745325831
• ISBN 13: 9780745325835
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 309