On Bernt Olufsen’s watch as editor-in-chief for VG the newspaper built it’s reputation for quality reporting and undergoing the transformation from print to online. Bernt has for years headed the Norwegian SKUP jury for awarding investigative journalism, and this year he also chairs the NODA jury.

Runa Sandvik var inntil for noen uker siden leder for det redaksjonelle sikkerhetsarbeidet i New York Times.

I sitt arbeid for en av verdens ledende mediebedrifter førte hun an i sentrale sikkerhetsspørsmål for redaksjonen. Det gjaldt journalistenes sikkerhet, arbeide med kildesikkerhet og dermed viktige forhold som går direkte på tilliten til ett av de fremste mediehus i verden. Sikkerheten for redaksjonen i New York Times er viktig for tilliten som må eksistere mellom medium og publikum.

I hackernes tidsalder må nye verktøy utvikles samtidig som kilder må beskyttes, journalister på oppdrag må beskyttes, innholdet og selve virksomheten vernes mot lekkasjer, angrep og trusler.

Møt Runa Sandvik, tidligere Senior Director of Information Security at The New York Times, som fortsatt brenner for disse avgjørende forholdene for en redaksjon.

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.

INVESTIGATION – Steiro is publisher of VG, the most successful Norwegian newspaper, constantly winning national and international awards for their investigative journalism and digital innovations. VG would compete for the top in an international ranking of remarkable business achievements transforming itself from a tabloid single copy sales strategy to the fastest growing subscription base in Norwegian media history. It’s ambitious «moon-landing» is to create a sustainable digital revenue base to fund their journalism completely not depending on print revenue at all. Gard Steiro is the inspirational head of this editorial beacon. He will give insights in how the mediahous became the digital powerhouse of the Schibsted Company and be rewarded best in class.