After attending Constructive Institute in Århus, Denmark as a fellow, Gerd has set out to rethink about journalism: I work to create a society where everyone who wants to feel part of a meaningful community is able to make informed decisions and actively participate in the development of society. Her company, “Room of Solutions” helps create and implement strategies that includes constructive and engaging journalism. By tradition, editorial managers don’t talk about negative or constructive news, it’s all about news. Gerd is challenging this rule, saying that media needs to be critical to own methods to find its future position in society. I help Danish and foreign media and educational institutions with strategy workshops, inspirational lectures and educational programs. I am committed, passionate and focused on developing journalism so that it constructively supports a positive development in our society. I believe in inclusivity, inspiration, nuances and trust as the fundamental journalistic criteria. Gerd Marie May worked as a journalist at Danmarks Radio, head of editorial developments at Fyhns Stiftstidende and has held educational positions as lecturer at University of Southern Denmark.

VISUALIZATION – Jonas Nilsson is head of digital design in regional newspaper Adresseavisen in Trondheim. Over the last 12 years Jonas has built his reputation as celebrated and awarded designer. Over the years, he has collected 40 honors and rewards. He has taken on difficult and challenging tasks and been richly awarded from audiences, colleagues and design professionals. Jonas love learning from others and sharing – in return often delivered with rough comments and inviting humor typical of his northern Norway heritage. We have invited him on a free basis to be the spice in several sessions dedicated to visual presentations and graphic design at NODA19.

Coworking journalists and developers – introductions and workshop combined – producer Magnus Bjerg, DTV2.
Magnus Bjerg, Digital Projects Manager at TV 2 Denmark, har just returned from a year as a Knight Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. He will speak on what he learned about how journalists and developers can work better together. He will also report on speak how he was chosen for the fellowship and the opportunities it provides.

FAKE NEWS – Susanne Alvestad is a postdoctoral fellow in modern Slavic languages at the University of Oslo. For her PhD thesis on the use of verbal aspect in Slavic imperatives she received His Majesty the King of Norway´s Gold Medal for outstanding dissertations in the humanities. Having studied Slavic languages as well as Turkish and Hebrew she is a broadly trained linguist who knows a thing or two about how languages work and about the power of language. In her talk at NODA, titled Fakespeak – the language of fake news. Linguistics in the service of disinformation detection, she will discuss how and why linguistics may be the key to the detection of fake news and other kinds of disinformation.