Pakistan president Zardari on hard pressure

by Nils Mulvad on 2011/12/16

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Tips for pakistan journalists in Denmark

by Nils Mulvad on 2011/12/05

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Fish subsidy data published – and a new analysis

november 17, 2011

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 [...]

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Hand-outs and plans for data track at Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev

oktober 9, 2011

Program for the conference Hands-on training Sarah Cohen on timelines Internet Albrecht Ude: Surfing anonymously and unfiltered Albrecht Ude: Searching people Yahoo Pipes Paul Bradshaw on Yahoo Pipes http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/07/16/how-to-create-basic-mashups-with-yahoo-pipes/ http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/12/18/how-to-create-a-custom-meta-search-in-yahoo-pipes/ Excel-training: Luuk Sengers and John Bones: Excel 1 Luuk Sengers and John Bones: Excel 2 Extra material from Jennifer LaFleur Google Fusion: Jennifer LaFleurs material [...]

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European Court of Justice: Publishing of farm subsidies against human rights

november 11, 2010

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 [...]

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Farmsubsidy.org release new data and are totally restructured

november 7, 2010

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 [...]

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Crowdsourcing in investigative journalism

oktober 14, 2010

In practice we can divide crowdsourcing according to the part of the journalistic process where the crowd is helping, and which tools are used to organize this help. This gives us a matrix to use for analyzing projects. You can also define projects on the basis of other categories, but here I use the journalistic [...]

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Boost in farmsubsidy millionaires

maj 6, 2010

Millionaires went up from 1040 to 1212 – expected to grow to more than 1400, when we get the full list from Portugal and UK. Press coverage of this years data harvesting festival for farmsubsidy.org was really good. Several medias round Europe used the material prepared by the festival in Brussels 3-4 of May 2010. [...]

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Data-use explode in journalism

april 27, 2010

Use of data-possibilities in investigative journalism explodes in these years. That was one of my statements at the 7th Global Conference for Investigative Journalism and Computer-Assisted Reporting. With more than 500 participants from over 80 countries the conference in Geneva from 22th to 25th of April 2010 was a big revitalization of the network. The [...]

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Overview of CAR

april 27, 2010

Panel at the global investigative journalism conference in Geneva 22th of April 2010 By nils.mulvad@kaasogmulvad.dk Computer-Assisted Reporting has spread from US to the rest of the World. But still it’s only rarely spread. Main tendencies today 1.    Journalists and medias are behind due to the fact that we hate numbers, data and information technology. 2.   [...]

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