Sometimes investigative reporting is just luck. For me, it happened with a story on Monsanto and a trial in Denmark on genetically modified organisms. GMOs are an especially controversial topic in Europe, as several people fear that the modified genes of crops might have long-term health effects. Because of this, Monsanto and other companies have found it difficult to […]
By Bruno Ingemann & Nils Mulvad Some of the best tips and techniques come out of the annual meetings by our colleagues in Scandinavia, and this year is no different. More than 600 participants attended the SKUP conference in Tønsberg, Norway, on April 8-10. Among the presenters: Bruno Ingemann, editor in chief of Jysk Fynske Medier […]
Tommy Kaas and Nils Mulvad conduct training and participate in some sessions as speakers. Here we have collected links to all of our material from the conference. Thursday 8th of October 12.30-13.30: Networking session on Environmental Reporting Nils Mulvad together with Subhra Priyadarshini from nature.com. 15.00: Teaching Computer-Assisted Reporting. Nils Mulvad will do a presentation. Other speakers will be […]
Together with editor for the Data Projects team at the Guardian, Helena Bengtsson, I did a presentation about how to get started with datajournalism on the annual conference of Netzwerk Recherche 3rd of July in Hamburg. We made a tipsheet on twelve tips, which was spread on twitter. After the presentation we have added three […]
A short overview for IRE Journal to celebrate 40 year for the US-based Investigative Reporters and Editors.Together with former IRE director Brant Houston, I organized the first two global conferences and founded the Global Investigative Journalism Network in 2003. BEFORE 1975 Lone journalists and a few news organizations in many cases investigated specific stories, but […]
I’m on my way to this years Dataharvest in Brussels for sharing stories and methods, meeting with good friends and get a better understanding of what is going on right now in other European countries in datajournalism. Friday the 8th of May at 12 AM I will be at a panel on Farmsubsidy Data, sharing data […]
Basic free or cheap data tools can be used by newsrooms. This is my list of advices after five days of training at the daily Delo in Slovenia with the aim of making it possible for them to work on data stories with free or inexpensive tools and a lot of new data. The […]
I was responsible for the data track on the first investigative journalism conference in Asia, taking place in Manila, Philippines from 22th to 25th of November 2014. It was a huge succes, binding the participants together in methods of journalism. The special Asian touch to investigative journalism began with the opening speech by the former […]
European data to be used of journalist was presented by Crina Boros, Reuters-Thompson, and Nils Mulvad, Kaas & Mulvad, at the VVOJ-conference 8th of November 2014 in Kortrijk, Begium. Photo: Nils Mulvad. Wishes for data: Raw data (not aggregated), fast published and updated Standard formats (xml, json, csv, etc.) Comparable from country to country and […]
Revised 15th of May 2014 Kaas & Mulvad did a lot of presentations and training at Data Harvest in Brussels 8th to 11th of May 2014 Get stories out of fresh Farmsubsidy data We have now extracted 2013 data from 25 countries, totalling 26,1 bio Euro. Last year we got data on 26,6 bio. Euro […]
