Speakers

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.

NODA AWARDS – Awards has grown to be biggest and most prestigious inter-Nordic journalistic competition for investigative, feature and applied reporting. More than 50 entries at NODA18.se constitutes the interest and importance for newsrooms to show the qualities and learn from each other cross borders and cross company entities.

Tormod Utne, former journalist and editor in Norwegian news outlets as Nettavisen and Sunnmørsposten and now lecturer and researcher at the Volda J-school, has taken upon the task to lead the jury nominating finalists and the winners of the NODA Awards.

Tormod Utne will be joined by distinguished mediapeople and academics in all the Nordic countries when the full jury is to be announced.

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.

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.

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.

Trustno1 – millions of passwords at large. Datasupported journalism on data – journalist Jonas Alvsaker Vikan, Adresseavisen
Jonas Alvsaker Vikan was an experienced gamer touring the world of gaming competitions before a journalist. Using his data competences, Jonas is an award-winning reporter for his unprecedented stories on the the criminal activities on the Dark Net. Currently Jonas and his team has revealed the biggest breach of internet security with millions of passwords at large accessible for misuse and evil.

Innovative data visualization and data visualization in society – professor Helen Kennedy, University of Sheffield.

Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield. Her research has traversed digital media landscapes, covering topics from web homepages to data visualisation, from race, class, gender inequality to learning disability and web accessibility, and from web design to social media data mining.

She is interested in many aspects of digital life, and is currently investigating the datafication of everyday life across a range of domains.

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.

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.

What is the significance of the traditional media for the local electoral movements? For the first time since 2006 their role is studied and analyzed at various local and regional electoral movements.

Martin Holmberg from Medier & Democrati and Sanna Volny at Södertörn University notes that local media has lost its previously obvious position. However, the news media has not been replaced by social media, but rather it is a complement. There is still a great deal of news produced by traditional media and information from the political parties that is republished, disseminated and debated.

FAKESPEAK – When New York Times journalist Jayson Blair wrote both true and false stories, his left specific language traces that lingvists like Susanne Alvestad can detect. Likewise, computer scientist Özlem Örzöbek can use these data to develop operational tools for CMS. Cooperating internationally, Silje and Özlem have support from NRK, both the Norwegian and Swedish News Agencies as well as Faktisk.no to do similar investigate work in Scandinavian languages and develop tools for disinformation detection. In their talk at NODA, titled Fakespeak – the language of fake news, lingvist Silje and computer scientist Özlem will discuss how and why linguistics may be a key to the detection of fake news and other kinds of disinformation.

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.

The world-renowned New York Times stands to promote the best American journalism can produce at both in the US and when they seek out global conflict arenas. In the age of hackers, new tools must be developed while sources must be protected, journalists on assignments protected, the content and the business itself protected from leaks, attacks and threats.
How does the New York Times ensure to maintain subscribers’ confidence as free and independent?
Meet Runa Sandvik, Senior Director of Information Security at The New York Times, who is given this task to solve in the New York Times.

What is the significance of the traditional media for the local electoral movements? For the first time since 2006 their role is studied and analyzed at various local and regional electoral movements.

Martin Holmberg from Medier & Democrati and Sanna Volny at Södertörn University notes that local media has lost its previously obvious position. However, the news media has not been replaced by social media, but rather it is a complement. There is still a great deal of news produced by traditional media and information from the political parties that is republished, disseminated and debated.