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Today's big British media news:
Editors of Times, Guardian, Telegraph, FT, Mirror, Paul Dacre, and many others have all signed an @openDemocracy letter calling for 'urgent' investigation of Cabinet Office's secretive FOI 'Clearing House'.
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra… #saveourfoi
Editors of Times, Guardian, Telegraph, FT, Mirror, Paul Dacre, and many others have all signed an @openDemocracy letter calling for 'urgent' investigation of Cabinet Office's secretive FOI 'Clearing House'.
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra… #saveourfoi
This show of Fleet Street unity follows directly from @openDemocracy 's reporting on how FOI requests are being stonewalled and requests from journalists and others are being vetted.
More on today's letter in @guardian theguardian.com/politics/2021/… and BBC bbc.com/news/uk-559882…
More on today's letter in @guardian theguardian.com/politics/2021/… and BBC bbc.com/news/uk-559882…
In a strongly-worded leader @thetimes calls for on "parliament to open an inquiry into the activities of the Clearing House to establish whether journalists are being blacklisted and monitored" thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti…
The letter also featured on @BBCRadio4 's Today programme
The letter also featured on @BBCRadio4 's Today programme
BREAKING💥: Editors of the Times, Guardian, Telegraph, FT, Mirror, Paul Dacre, and many others have all signed an @openDemocracy calling for 'urgent' investigation of Cabinet Office's secretive Freedom of Information 'Clearing House'
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
#saveourfoi
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
#saveourfoi
The letter calls for an investigation into controversial Clearing House unit, which @openDemocracy reported on in Nov. opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
It also demands new measures to speed up FOI requests and greater support for the Information Commissioner’s Office, which oversees FOI.
It also demands new measures to speed up FOI requests and greater support for the Information Commissioner’s Office, which oversees FOI.
The letter has been signed by more than a dozen current or former Fleet Street editors as well as Labour and Tory politicians, former regulators, transparency campaigners and many top journalists.
Story now on @guardian too theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
#saveourfoi
Story now on @guardian too theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
#saveourfoi
