Using international data in investigative journalism

april 27, 2010

Panel at the global investigative journalism conference in Geneva 23th of April 2010 By nils.mulvad@kaasogmulvad.dk In many years US was seen as the leader in Computer-Assisted Reporting, due to the fact that it was easy to get data in US, and much more difficult in other countries. But this is also build on a misunderstanding. [...]

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EU Fish Subsidies fail

april 5, 2010

EU subsidies to fish industry has not achived a fall in fishing capacity in the seven years 2000-2006, which was the goal of the the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG). This is the main conclusion in a new report from Pew Environment Group. This has contributed to the worsening status of some stocks and [...]

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Innovative watchdog media

marts 23, 2010

We are proud to tell that Kaas & Mulvad just was mentioned as an example of an innovative watchdog media. It happened, when Paris-based scholar, teacher and investigative author Mark Lee Hunter last weekend was doing a presentation at the SKUP conference in Norway. SKUP is the Norwegian investigative journalism organization. The presentation was based on a working paper [...]

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Speakers at Nicar-conference

marts 8, 2010

Tommy Kaas and Nils Mulvad participate in the conference on Computer-Assisted Reporting in Phoenix 11-14th of March 2010 – both as speakers. Tommy Kaas Conduct 2 sessions on Google Maps together with Mike Corey, while Nils Mulvad join 2 panels as a speaker. One is on  integrating Computer-Assisted Reporting and Investigative reporting with social medias, [...]

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Fields of Gold: Lifting the Veil on Europe’s Farm Subsidies

december 31, 2009

A short film (6 minutes) telling the story of how a small group of European journalists, researchers and computer programmers uncovered the secrets of the European Union’s 55 billion euro a year. Nils Mulvad is part of the network and do the data analysis in the project for all 27 EU memberstates.

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Datapresentation: Unskilled Workers Die Prematurely

december 31, 2009

Written the 08. November 2009 by Nils Mulvad The biggest Danish analysis of detailed data on death rates for unskilled workers in Denmark showed exactly where and of what diseases the workers have a higher mortality rate compared to the average dane. The lessons was presented at the Danish conference on investigative journalism Saturday the [...]

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Covering Politics and Politicians

december 31, 2009

Written the 13. November 2009 by Nils Mulvad New way of following the political process and the individual politicians are emerging. We see different business models, and this will grow in the coming years. We see scraping of all kind of data from parliaments websites and politicians blogs and pages on Facebook and Twitter etc. [...]

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New law: Hiding political decisions in Denmark

december 31, 2009

Written the 16. November 2009 by Nils Mulvad Easier access to databases, but a total step back on access to the political decision process, is the main content in a proposal for a new law on Freedom of Information in Denmark. The law was proposed Wednesday the 11th of November 2009 and today – Monday [...]

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In-depth story on European farm subsidies in International Herald Tribune

december 31, 2009

Written 17. July 2009 by Nils Mulvad The International Herald Tribune today have an in-depth story on the structure of European farm subsidies. Their story is based on the data published by the 27 member states of EU and extracted by Farmsubsidy.org. Kaas & Mulvad do the extraction and are responsible for data gathering and [...]

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Situation in Denmark for getting electronic data

december 31, 2009

Written 24. Nov 2009 by Nils Mulvad 1. After 7 year we this month got a proposal for a new law on FOI with good access to data and bad with new rules hiding the political process. 2. Organizing the work in Åbenhedstinget. 3. Good cooperation with local and regional authorities – hard fights with [...]

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