| The NUJ is to host a special debate
to mark the launch of the new book, Your Right
to Know, How to Use the Freedom of Information Act,
by Heather Brooke (published this month by Pluto Press).
The Freedom of
Information Act, which came into force on 1st
January 2005, offers journalists new opportunities
to question how those in power use it.
The debate on the subject: "The public's right
to know versus the state's right to snoop"
will be held at the NUJ offices at Headland House.
Speakers will include former BBC defence correspondent
Andrew Gilligan, Tony Bunyan, director of Statewatch,
a former MI5 officer Annie Machon, Simon Davies
of Privacy
International and Heather Brooke, Your Right
to Know’s author.
Thursday January 20, 6.30 pm, at the NUJ
Head Office,
308 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DP (near King's
Cross station). |
