Heather Brooke

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.

Brooke was a Professor of Journalism at City University London's Department of Journalism and an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School in New York. She is the author of ''Your Right to Know'' (2006), ''The Silent State'' (2010), and ''The Revolution Will Be Digitised'' (2011), as well as a regularly updated Substack. Provided by Wikipedia