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      A Great Big List of FOI Ideas

      • Post last modified:May 30, 2024
      • Post category:Freedom of Information
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      Is one of your journalism resolutions this year to put in more Freedom of Information requests but not really sure where to start? David Higgerson’s blog has a FOI Friday feature, collecting…

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      FOI is better than tea and biscuits!

      • Post last modified:July 19, 2024
      • Post category:Freedom of Information
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      The Cardiffian, Cardiff School of Journalism’s hyperlocal website, published a story earlier about Freedom of Information requests to Cardiff Council – nearly 4,000 in the past three years (most of those…

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      Using FOI as a journalist

      • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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      I make a lot of FOI requests (I counted about 80 in a year), and yes, some of them are just fishing expeditions to get stories (look, it has to…

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      Journo Resolutions 2012

      • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
      • Post category:Data Journalism/Freedom of Information/Open Data
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      As it’s the third day of the New Year, now’s as good a time as any for some resolutions for the new year. Learn Last year, I learnt a lot…

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