From coronation budgets to secretive government units, journalists have used the Freedom of Information Act to expose corruption and incompetence in high places. Tony Blair regrets ever giving us this right. Today's UK government is giving fewer and fewer transparency responses, and doing it more slowly.
Hear from:
- Claire Miller Data journalism and FOI expert
- Martin Rosenbaum Author of ‘Freedom of Information: A Practical Guidebook’; former BBC political journalist
- Jenna Corderoy Investigative reporter at openDemocracy and visiting lecturer at City University, London
- Chair: Ramzy Alwakeel Head of news at openDemocracy
