Belfast Telegraph: Journalist refuses to hand over Real IRA information

Posted on 4 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Suzanne Breen, Sunday Tribune Northern Editor, has been threatened with legal action if she doesn't give up phones, computers, discs, notes and other material linked to two articles she has written on the paramilitary organisation."

Google Maps Mania: More Crime on Google Maps

Posted on 11 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"The Banjax Crime Map is a map of crime in Northern Ireland. The data for the map comes from the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS)."

Independent: Freedom of Information: First major casualty of the ‘right to know’ legislation

Posted on 7 March, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"When the Democratic Unionist Party assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr stood down from his father's department last month, he became the first government minister in the UK to resign because of the Freedom of Information Act"

Belfast Telegraph: Resignation is not the end of the matter

Posted on 19 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Investigations correspondent David Gordon argues that the Freedom of Information Act played a key role in bringing down the junior minister [Ian Paisley Jr']."

Belfast Telegraph: Majority of FoI requests are from the general public

Posted on 22 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"[A] private internal report for Ministers, seen by the Belfast Telegraph, on the operation of the Freedom of Information system ... reveals that in October the bulk of FoI requests came from the public - 61%. the media ... make ... around 18%"

BBC News: Open Secrets: Better in Belfast

Posted on 29 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has marked [International Right to Know Day] by calling on public authorities to release more information proactively about their work."

Virtual Economics: The Interwebs causes suicide. O rly?

Posted on 27 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Seamus McCauley smacks down Janet Street-Porter's latest column: "It ignores all of the evidence we have of teenage suicide epidemics that owe nothing at all to the Internet." The evidence actually points at big media reporting high-profile suicides!

Telegraph Blogs: Ian Douglas: The danger for boys isn’t online

Posted on 26 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Read this: Ian Douglas demolishes Janet Street-Porter's "misleading, uncomprehending and dangerous" recent column blaming the internet for suicides in its place.

Independent on Sunday: We must rescue boys from cyberspace so they can live in the real world – Independent Online Edition > Janet Street-Porter

Posted on 24 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Now Janet Street-Porter thinks the spate of teenage suicides in Northern Ireland has something to do with the Internet: "[T]he internet's true negative power is to replace real relationships and friendships with cyber pals."

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