Farmsubsidy.org release new data and are totally restructured
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Using international data in investigative journalism
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. […]
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 […]
Innovative watchdog media
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 […]
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, […]
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.