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.

Ståle Grut is in the midst of writing a book on how journalists can extend their knowledge in critical thinking and work with digital sources. Examining known methods and combining experiences from different editorial newsrooms, his intention is to give fellow journalists guidance in executing traditional source skills in the digital age.

FACT-CHECKING – Kristoffer Egeberg was asked to head the fact checking site Faktisk.no when the leading Norwegian publishers set up their ideal and independent organization in 2017. Since then, Faktisk.no has fought back most of the skepticism and critic, also from press colleagues. Nowadays the former Norwegian army officer and international awarded investigative reporter may be happy to see that practically all legacy media has joined his ranks. Faktisk.no is seen as an important contributor to an improved public debate and the debunking of incorrect and false news.

Noda19 will include fact-checking and the important work to increase trust to media in it’s workflow. Faktisk.no staff and Kristoffer will give competence courses at NODA and contribute to the conference programme.

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.