The most represented topic was the UK Welfare reform. In-depth analysis of selected requests demonstrated that policy beneficiaries were confused about changes. They used ATI legislation to raise criticism of the reform or seek clarification on how it would affect their individual cases.

Using a dataset of 37k ATI requests submitted via the WhatDoTheyKnow platform (WDTK) to the UK central government bodies, I used structural topic modelling to explore what it is that UK citizens want to know from their government. I find that the information demand is very heterogeneous.

In just one year, 113 journalists and media workers were killed in direct reprisal for their work. Of those, 82 were killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) provides one of the most comprehensive longitudinal global datasets on journalists and media workers who have been killed, imprisoned, or gone missing. Last year was the deadliest year for journalists since CPJ began collecting this data in 1992.