US wire service Associated Press has gone for the local angle on the MPs' expenses scandal, highlighting the role of campaigning freedom of information journalist Heather Brooke, with a great intro:
"It took a sassy American to force stuffy British lawmakers to come clean over their expenses. Heather Brooke, a 38-year-old Pennsylvania-born reporter and former staff writer for the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, has become the scourge of Parliament, forcing the publication of legislators' expenses claims following a five-year legal battle that has exposed Britain's deep-rooted culture of official secrecy."
Sounds like it would make a great Hollywood script.
Via Editor & Publisher
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