Author Archive | Nils Mulvad

Crowdsourcing in investigative journalism

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

Boost in farmsubsidy millionaires

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

Data-use explode in journalism

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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Computer-Assisted Reporting spreading

Overview of CAR

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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New report from Pew trustable Fund

EU Fish Subsidies fail

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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Yarly CAR-conference in Phoenix

Speakers at Nicar-conference

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

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. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_rMvIPEDI[/youtube] Nils Mulvad is part of the network and do the data analysis in the project for all 27 EU memberstates.

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Covering Politics and Politicians

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

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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