LIVE: Keynote with Heather Brooke
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Heather Brooke is best known for her role in bringing MPs expenses – one of the biggest stories of 2009 – to light after a tireless five-year freedom-of-information campaign.
As well as an author of two books – Your Right to Know and The Silent State – Brooke is an honorary visiting fellow at City University London’s journalism department, where her teaching covers computer-assisted reporting and the effective use of public records and databases.
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[...] a clear signal.The key-note speaker is journalist, author and freedon-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke, who is best known for her role in bringing MPs expenses to light.Other speakers include key players [...]
[...] Live: Keynote speech with Heather Brooke – talking about data journalism and the process of information scraping from public bodies – really interesting stuff about how the U.K. is difficult to manoeuvre for investigative journalists… Remember that Heather revealed the MP’s Expenses Scandal back in 2009! [...]
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