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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“You couldn’t work as a journalist, if you were not able to do an interview. The same applies to data journalism in the age of digitalization” – says Nils Mulvad, a world renowned data journalist, editor at Kaas & Mulvad and associate professor at The Danish School of Media and Journalism during the Data Harvest […]
Google Fusion Open Refine Helium Scraper Social and mobile media for investigative journalism. Paul Myers: Researchclinic Pitch of Investigative Reporting Denmank and a concrete cross-border project on pesticides. Material for the network-meeting on climate and environment. Handout with methods, findings and tips for uncovering secrets in food and nature. We will upload material, when it […]
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Close to 100 journalists, vizualisers and hackers gathered data and shared methods 6th to 8th of May 2012 in Brussels.
Fishsubsidy.org: New online database of €1.1 billion in EU fisheries subsidies; concerns about declining data standards Fishsubsidy.org, the transparency project which in 2009 launched an online database of EU fisheries subsidies from 1994 to 2006, has launched a new database of payments under the European Fisheries Fund, from 2007 to 2010. The fisheries subsidy database […]
It conflicts with human rights to publish names and amounts on recipients of EU farm subsidies. This has the European Court of Justice decided. Germany and Ireland have now shut down their websites, but the information can be found on farmsubsidy.org. Today it’s hard to tell the consequenses of the decission. See Jack Thurstons, Brigitte […]
Farmsubsidy.org has released information on farm subsidies for all 27 EU memberstates for free and made the database searchable in a simple way. Danish payments of EU farm subsidies got journalist Kjeld Hansen and I access to in 2004. Several stories followed in Danish medias. It was a breakthrough, because it was the first country in EU […]
