Heather Brooke
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Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin, dozens of MPs standing down in the 2010 general election and multiple MPs being jailed.[1]
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Born | 1970 (age 53ā54) Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | American British |
Education | University of Washington (Double degree in Journalism and Political Science, 1992) University of Warwick (Master's degree in English Literature) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
Known for | Role in exposing the 2009 British MP expenses scandal |
Website | heatherbrooke |
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Brooke is Professor of Journalism at City University London's Department of Journalism. She is the author of Your Right to Know (2006), The Silent State (2010), and The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011).