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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
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…
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
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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
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.
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
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