Heather Brooke
British-American FOI campaigner; helped expose the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal.
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- Heather Brooke is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner.
- Her requests for MPs' expenses, from 2004, and the court rulings that followed helped expose the 2009 expenses scandal.
- She was a professor of journalism at City University London and has written three books on secrecy and openness.
Key facts
- Born
- 1970, Pennsylvania; grew up in Seattle1
- Education
- Journalism and political science, University of Washington (1992); master's in English literature, University of Warwick1
- Books
- Your Right to Know (2004); The Silent State (2010); The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011)1
- Awards
- Judges' Prize, British Press Awards (2010)1
- Writes
- Heather's Newsletter1
Links
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