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

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.

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