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Martin Rosenbaum
is a BBC News specialist in FOI and executive producer in BBC Political Programmes
Blog posts in total 3
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Freedom of Information (FOI): Useful tool that’s failed to live up to our hopes
In the decade since the Freedom of Information Act was passed, the BBC has used FOI to unearth hundreds of stories. Martin Rosenbaum describes some of the hurdles and hard lessons learned.
Data journalism: the important difference between transparency and clarity
Last month the Royal College of Surgeons released figures on death rates for major blood vessel surgery, analysed by individual, named surgeons. It showed that for many surgeons none of their patients had died in the wake of these operations, but for others several patients had died.
Freedom of information: be careful what you ask for
Focus on the information that is actually recorded, not so much thinking outside the box as inside the filing cabinet or hard drive.
