Freelance journalist in Copenhagen since 2008. One of my key tasks is developing Journalismfund.eu, a support structure for investigative journalism in Europe.
I lived in Brussels from 2004-2008 working as EU-correspondent for Danish daily Information.
I do journalistic research, develop research support structures and add a bit to the debate via my blogs – currently mostly about journalism in Europe and about transparency.
December 2011: €324.000 for the next two years of work with Journalismfund.eu, Wobbing.eu, Farmsubsidy.org and InvestigativeStories.org. What great news!
November 2011: Tangible impact of the story on Bluefin Tuna we did last year: The system to control the limits of the fisheries in order to protect the Bluefin Tuna changes from paper ages to digital administration. Read more about the impact we achieved here.
November 2011: For the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev Nicky Hager and I developed a networking model to help journalists meet colleagues with the same interests and to help first time participants meet some of the experienced conference-goers. We got excellent evaluation – and were asked to take notes of how to do it. Recently we finalised the Conference Networking Cook Book part I. Following episodes will hopefully be written by coming conferences.
November 2011: Proud to present a new cross-border research supported by Journalismfund.eu about arms trade to the Yugoslav wars during the embargo – even before the trilogy of books is finished, the core team wins journalistic praise. Congratulations to the team in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. The teams were supported by Journalismfund.eu and Scoop - in other words: My projects with research grants seem to work.
October 2011: An utterly busy month with the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev, where Scoop was the organizer. Along with Nicky Hager from New Zealand I organised the networking part. Cook-book for conference networking 1st take will be online soon. Next version to be developed by whoever grabs the idea at their own conference. Evaluations were mostly enthusiastic! See the “Conference Networking Cook Book” on this blog.
We just got €324.000 for the next two years of work with several of our European journalism projects! What great news!
The Open Society Foundation decided to give the money to several projects:
The largest and most important is Journalismfund.eu, where we give research grants to cross-border and European journalism. This project was initiated by Ides Debruyne and myself in the autumn of 2008 and I have spent quite a bit of my time building it up and developing it.
The second is Wobbing.eu, a network of journalists who use freedom of information legislation as a method to obtain good quality information for our reporting. The project was initiated by Ides Debruyne and I have built it up since 2007. Since 2010 Staffan Dahllöf has joined as co- and more and more as key-editor.
The third project supported by this grant is Farmsubsidy.org. The past years the farmsubsidy network has been supported by the Hewlett Foundation, however now this flagship of European wob- and datajournalism was threatened, as it simply costs money to obtain and process the data, so they are accessible to the public in spite of all the obstacles. Really great news, that we got this! Farmsubsidy was founded in 2005 by a network of journalists and researchers and has been run by a core team consisting of Nils Mulvad, Jack Thurston and myself.
Furthermore one project will be supported to gather investigative stories and make the accessible across borders.
All projects are under the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund founded in 1998 to commemorate the visionary Belgian journalist Pascal Decroos, who was killed in a car accident in 1997.
