Heather Brooke, Journalist and author of "Your Right to Know"
Heather Brooke, www.yrtk.org
Heather Brooke is a journalist and writer living in London. She is the author of ‘Your Right to Know’, a citizens’ guide to using the Freedom of Information Act. In May 2008, she won a High Court case against the House of Commons for the full disclosure of MPs’ second homes allowances. The ruling resulted in calls for full-scale reform of the Parliamentary expense system. She was runner-up for the inaugural Paul Foot award for investigative journalism and her project ‘Justice by postcode’ for The Times was one of the first examples of computer-assisted reporting in the UK. She is a visiting fellow at City University’s Department of Journalism and is a consultant and presenter on several Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4. Prior to moving to the UK, Heather was a newspaper reporter covering politics and crime and she has just finished writing her first crime novel.