[LAF] FW: FRONTLINE CONFIDENTIAL TALK: How to use the Freedom of Information Act - Thursday, 17 November - 7.30pm

[Joy Wood]

>From: The Frontline Club <events at thefrontlineclub.com>
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>To: Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com>
>Subject: FRONTLINE CONFIDENTIAL TALK: How to use the Freedom of Information 
>Act - Thursday, 17 November - 7.30pm
>Date: Tue,  8 Nov 2005 13:33:59 +0000 (GMT)
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>Frontline Confidential
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>             The Frontline Club and the Centre for Investigative
>             Journalism in association with the Open Society 
>Foundation-Media
>                 Network Program invite you to
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>HOW TO USE THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
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>           with Heather Brooke, author of Your Right to Know
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>Thursday, 17th November ??7.30pm
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>"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
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>On 1 January, 2005, the Freedom of Information Act came into force. It gave 
>the British public a legal right, for the first time, to access information 
>from more than 100,000 public authorities. And yet UK journalists continue 
>to have much less access to basic information than their compatriots in 
>other industrialised countries. Postcode databases, land registers, court 
>records, arrest logs, crime incident details, public officials??salaries 
>and expenses, publicly funded contracts, facts behind major policy 
>decisions ??all are still difficult for reporters to obtain.
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>So what can journalists do to start getting this information into the 
>public domain?
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>Join us, as Heather Brooke speaks about how journalists in the UK have used 
>the new Act, about its successes and its failures, and about how it may 
>just be the first step towards the resuscitation of British investigative 
>journalism.
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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, The Guardian, Daily 
>Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, New Statesman, BBC History and 
>Journalist magazines. She has taught the National Union of Journalists 
>Freedom of Information course since its inception, and has trained 
>journalists from all the major media groups, including The Guardian, BBC, 
>ITV,  and the Financial Times, as well as a variety of specialist 
>magazines.
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>The event will take place at The Frontline
>               Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London
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