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.

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.

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.

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM WORK – Volan is exploring new editorial territory as director for reader engagement at Dagens Næringsliv in Oslo, Norway. In her own words: I fell in love with the Internet in the 1990s. I have worked as a reporter online, on local tv, local radio and newspapers, as well as training other reporters to do online journalism. I love doing workshops and training.At Noda she will give training in interdisciplinary team work where not only journalist, but also designers, programmers and other skilled persons shines in the light of jobs well done.
Ingeborg is formerly director of newsroom innovation at Adresseavisen, head of social media at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and executive editor for NRK Beta, the NRK’s newsroom think-tank on new technology and media trends. One of Norway’s most used speakers and media sources on social media and digital communications. She also serve on the board of the Norwegian Editors’ Association and World Editors Forum and used to be president of Norway’s Online News Association for four years.