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Don’t direct students to file FOI requests to universities, Texas lecturers told

From the US last week, but worth reading – a curious situation for journalism academics: Journalism teachers sometimes instruct students to file such requests under the Texas Public Information Act to...

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BBC News: Hundreds more organisations could be covered by FOI law

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will tomorrow announce that hundreds more organisations could be made subject to Freedom of Information laws, the BBC reports today. According to the broadcaster, the...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – FOI request ideas

Looking for some inspiration for story leads? Check out this list of 20 example freedom of information request ideas on David Higgerson’s blog, to help get the ball rolling. Tipster: Rachel McAthy. To...

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The Lawyer: Harrow Council considers making all FOI data public

Harrow Council is considering plans to proactively publish all information that would be released under an FOI request, reports the Lawyer. Harrow has seen a 160 per cent increase in the number of FOI...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – better FOI requests

David Higgerson has used Twitter to crowdsource some advice from local authority staff on what journalists can do to improve their freedom of information requests pulling together some of the responses...

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Budget details held back by Treasury press office

Finance journalist Chris Wheal reports that the Treasury press office will not provide him with figures showing how much worse off families will be as a result of the budget. Wheal recorded a...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – FOI blogs and websites

The International Forum for Responsible Media blog (Inforrm) has compiled this useful list of sites and blogs relating to Freedom of Information issues which it links to in its work. A great resource...

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David Higgerson: Journalists must keep pushing for open data

David Higgerson, head of multimedia for Trinity Mirror Regionals, has published the address he made about data journalism at the FutureEverything conference in Manchester last week, making some...

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Can FOI requests be submitted on Twitter? Yes, says ICO

In its monthly newsletter, sent out yesterday (28 July), the Information Commissioners Office sought to clarify an interesting question: whether or not people can use Twitter to submit freedom of...

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Petition for Hillsborough papers release exceeds 120,000 signatures

The BBC reported yesterday that an online petition calling for cabinet papers relating to the Hillsborough disaster to be released had collected 100,000 signatures, which is the amount required for the...

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AP test claims 50% of countries with FOI laws ‘do not follow them’

Of the 105 countries which have laws governing the freedom of information, more than 50 per cent “do not follow them”, according to a test carried out by the Associated Press. In a report on the...

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Newspaper Society: Justice select committee calls for evidence on FOI Act

The Newspaper Society issued a reminder this morning that the justice select committee has made a call for evidence on “the operation” of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 – as part of its...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – new guide to Freedom of Information Act

The Information Commissioner’s Office has produced a “new plain English guide to Freedom of Information”. It is aimed at helping “public authorities better understand what the Act says and how to...

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#jpod – Assessing the impact of the Freedom of Information Act and its future

This week’s jpod comes days after the Justice Select Committee began hearing evidence as part of its review of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Given the impact of the legislation on the everyday...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – how to ask for data under FoI

At a meeting of Hacks/Hackers Canterbury on Monday, Nicola Hughes, a Knight-Mozilla fellow working at the Guardian, was asked a question about how to best get hold of a spreadsheet containing data...

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#Tip: Advice for making FOI requests in the UK and US

By Mark Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Freedom of Information laws are a game changer for journalists anywhere, opening up the inner workings of government for inspection and now 90 countries...

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NYT: What would Daniel Ellsberg have done with Pentagon Papers if Wikileaks...

Now that it is relatively simple for anyone in possession of leaked documents to publish them directly to the internet, is there any reason to pass them on to a national newspaper? With the viral...

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Ed Walker: Council documents tell stories too, not just FOI requests

Ed Walker looks at the different types of papers and reports released by councils in the UK and how these can lead to news stories. This is a detailed post with advice on how to organise your research...

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Local council says it will start charging for FOI requests

A local council in Chester has announced it will start charging for freedom of information requests, claiming the service is currently being misused and manipulated. According to a press release from...

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David Higgerson: Tell your readers about failed FOI requests

A blog post by David Higgerson, head of multimedia for Trinity Mirror Regionals, this week addresses the issue of FOI request refusals and what he thinks journalists should do if they hit a brick wall...

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