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What happens to plastic waste?
Pod črto calculated the average yearly "plastic footprint" of their newsroom. Where does all this plastic waste go?
Reflections of an innocently convicted person: prison time changes personality irreversibly
As part of EDJNet’s investigation on the abuse of preventive detention in Europe , EUrologus made an insightful interview with a innocent convict who was wrongly sentenced.
How these companies tried to greenwash their plastic waste
Europe’s food and drinks companies make big promises to cut plastic waste. But they don't deliver. We checked. A story about ambitious commitments, hidden failures and how to hold firms accountable.
The datafied society and its implications for European democracies
How is the role of big tech companies and automated decision-making systems affecting European democracies? Andreas Vou (VoxEurop), Nicolas Kayser-Bril (AlgorithmWatch) and Federico Caruso (OBC Transeuropa) share their views on the fourth (and last) episode of this podcast series.
Open data and the public administrations
In this conversation, Ornaldo Gjergji (OBC Transeuropa), Martina Zaghi (Openpolis), and David Cabo (CIVIO) discuss the relations between public administrations and newsrooms, from data accessibility to transparency. And on how the COVID-19 pandemic may (or may not) have changed the state of play.
The challenges for doing data journalism on European affairs
In the second episode of EDJNet's Data Literacy podcast, Lorenzo Ferrari (OBC Transeuropa), Clara Guibourg (J++), and Alexander Damiano Ricci (VoxEurop) discuss what makes transnational data journalism special, from the variety of data sources to multilingualism. As well as the need for reasoned comparisons among countries, and the increasing relevance of local contexts.
Why data journalism is a useful way to approach European issues
Why is data journalism useful to approach European issues? In this conversation, Chiara Sighele (OBC Transeuropa), Gian Paolo Accardo (VoxEurop), and György Folk (EUrologus) discuss the state of the European public sphere, how to favour the circulation of news within the EU, the micro-macro linkage in European affairs, and how being part of a European network of media outlets helps facing some of the challenges of journalism nowadays.
Maria Alvarez: exposing differences within Europe in the wake of Covid-19
María Álvarez, data journalist at Civio, coordinated EDJNet's coverage of two relevant issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: changes in mobility and nurse shortage in Europe. In this video, she presents the main challenges and the most interesting findings of the two works. Data on mobility were analysed to identify how containment measures affected people's lives; nursing personnel data was among the indices used to assess how prepared European healthcare systems were for the pandemic.
Nicolas Kayser-Bril: Investigating the Instagram Algorithm
Nicolas Kayser-Bril, data journalist at Algorithm Watch, coordinated AW-EDJNet’s joint investigation on Instagram’s algorithm. In this video, he explains why the subject matters and how it could be approached, despite the lack of transparency of the algorithm. Data suggests that Instagram has a bias in favour of pictures of scantily clothed men or women – this has an impact both on creators’ business and on users’ views.
