Articles: Vatican revelations in diplomatic cables
Here are a few links to the Vatican articles I worked on (Sorry for delayed posting). Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry 11 Dec 2010: Leaked cable lays bare how Irish government was...
View ArticleArticle: Bradley Manning’s health deteriorating
Bradley Manning’s health deteriorating in jail, supporters say Guardian, Thursday 16 December 2010 By Heather Brooke The intelligence analyst suspected of leaking US diplomatic cables is being held in...
View ArticleArticle: Publishing in the Digital Revoluion
Writing In The Digital Revolution The Huffington Post, 12 August 2011 By Heather Brooke As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events...
View ArticleArticle: Inside the secret world of hackers
As part of my research for ‘The Revolution Will Be Digitised’ I hung out in a lot of hackerspaces and met many hackers. A lot of people think hackers are synonymous with cybercriminals but the real...
View ArticleArticle: Freedom of Information and big business
Freedom of information is for businesses too Guardian, 1/2 September 2011 Is scientific research endangered by Philip Morris’s freedom of information request? Not when we all benefit A request by...
View ArticleArticle: Police attempting to criminalise investigative journalism
Investigative journalism must not be criminalised Guardian, 9/10 September Police questioning of journalists such as the Guardian’s Amelia Hill who seek to uncover corruption is a worrying trend The...
View ArticleSeparating the man from the cause
An abbreviated version of this article appeared in today’s (London) Times. The WikiLeaks ‘hero’ is actually morally bankrupt The Times, 23 September 2011 One question I’m often asked about my long...
View ArticleArticle: Journalism’s unique selling point is the public interest
As Lord Justice Leveson prepares to investigate newspaper conduct, I joined three other writers to discuss ‘How far can the press go in the public interest?’ The press will die if it fails in its duty...
View ArticleArticle: US Govt secretly snoops on your email
How the US government secretly reads your email The Guardian, 11/12 October 2011 Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic to release a WikiLeaks volunteer’s email reveal the scale of US government...
View ArticleArticle: Accused leaker Bradley Manning in court
In its punitive treatment of accused leaker Bradley Manning, the US government has missed an opportunity to live up to its values of freedom, says Heather Brooke After 18 months, accused leaker gets a...
View ArticleArticle: The Future of Investigative Journalism
The Lords Communications Committee report, “The Future of Investigative Journalism”, (HL: 263 – pdf) was published 16 February and I’ve written an article in response for House magazine. Report Review...
View ArticleArticle: State Spying needs to be shown the back door
This is a slightly longer version of an article I wrote for The Times last week about the UK Government’s proposal for industrial internet surveillance: the ‘snooper’s charter’. The following day, the...
View ArticleArticle: Leveson fallout
(Download the PDF) It is deeply disturbing to read Brian Leveson’s recommendations on regulating the press at a time when police and security services are trying to legalise the broadest surveillance...
View ArticleArticle: Government changes would kill FOI in Britain
Recently the Government published its response to Parliament’s post-legislative scrutiny of the Freedom of Information Act. I wrote a response to this in the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times, 24 December...
View ArticleArticle: Anger at the Ballot Box
The Guardian Saturday, December 28, 2013 We live in the digital age but our politics is still analogue. No wonder voters are disillusioned Politics matters. It always has and always will. It has always...
View ArticleArticle: The Language of Secrets
The Guardian Saturday, January 18, 2014 We’ve not had the words to talk about our security services. Dishfire, Prism: we’re now learning some What we have no words for we cannot discuss except crudely....
View ArticleArticle: Review of The People’s Platform
Astra Taylor’s book challenges utopian views about the democratizing effects of the internet. Who Pays? The Literary Review, June 2014 The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the...
View ArticleArticle: England’s antiquated court system
Gove is right: our antiquated court system produces two-nation justice The Guardian, Friday 3 July 2015 As legal aid cuts force people to represent themselves, the costly, tortuous steps to access...
View ArticleArticle: The Independent Surveillance Review Panel
Mass surveillance: my part in the reform of GCHQ and UK intelligence gathering The Guardian, Tuesday 14 July 2015 When I sat down with an ex-minister, former security chiefs, internet execs and...
View ArticleArticle: Transparency, tax and the Panama Papers
Transparency thwarts the abuse of power to enrich the powerful Financial Times, 13 April 2016 But disclosure can increase the information asymmetry between ruler and ruled Heather Brooke writes The...
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