EIJC & Dataharvest is an annual, four-day conference, organised by Journalismfund.eu, which brings together journalism heavyweights, data specialists and coding whiz-kids to exchange skills and story ideas. EIJC18 & Dataharvest will take place on Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday morning 27 May 2018. Like last year, place to be is the charming city of Mechelen, 20 minutes outside of Brussels and very easily accessible! Address is Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen at Thomas More University College - Campus De Vest.
Journalismfund.eu vzw is an independent non-profit organisation under Belgian law that aims to promote quality in-depth and cross-border journalism by giving working grants to journalists, by providing networking opportunities and by organising training sessions.
A young woman had spent most of two years tied down in a bed at a psychiatric hospital in Oslo. How unique was her story? Investigative journalists Synnove Asebo and Mona Norman from Norwegian daily VG spent months and FOI laws to gain public access to the handwritten protocols where each incident of coercion was registered. By digitizing thousands of handwritten notes, building their own tool to make digital logs and analyzing the material, VG could expose new and groundbreaking statistics on unlawful use of physical coercion against psychiatric patients. The material was presented in interactive digital graphics, longreads and a video documentary – to visualize the use of coercion in a field were the patient’s stories had to be anonymous. The project has won several prizes for investigative journalism and data journalism.
Author and reporter for Investigative unit in VG, Norway. Recent projects on crime, corruption, health and social issues. Winner of SKUP award and international data journalism awards.
