Check Your Facts
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago -We are David & Marc. We love to talk about everything related to the digitalisation. On this podcast we do this – with journalists & digital media people from all around the world.
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#allforjan: The murder of a Slovakian journalist
March 18, 2018 17:00 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBJan Kuciak (27) and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová (27) were murdered because of Jan's investigative work. We talk about the events and its impacts on Slovak and European journalism. Condolences: www.allforjan.com His last piece of work in Slovakian: www.aktuality.sk/clanok/568007/talianska-mafia-na-slovensku-jej-chapadla-siahaju-aj-do-politiky/ in English: www.politico.eu/article/jan-kuciak-last-story-italian-mafias-tentacles-reach-into-slovak-politics/ in German: www.bild.de/politik/auslan...
Online video: How to spark discussion, not hate
February 19, 2018 05:44 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBEva Schulz is a journalist, online video show host, presenter and producer. Currently she is hosting Deutschland3000, a Facebook show by German public broadcasters, that covers politics for a millennial audience. Prior to that, she co-created Hochkant, a Snapchat news channel for 14- to 19-year-olds. Eva has started blogging very young and her first foreign language as she puts it was HTML. We had a very deep dive into online video, platforms and formats. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ev...
Data Journalism helps small newsrooms
February 11, 2018 21:34 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBBettina Figl is a reporter at Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung. But she is also a research fellow at The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. There she published a paper about data journalism and small newsrooms. She talks with us at Check Your Facts podcast about how she managed to find her way into Oxford University and what she found out researching several newsrooms. This may help you implementing or strenghten data driven modules in you newsroom as...
The 'Trump Bump' (more like 'Zeman Bump') moment in Czech media happening right now
February 05, 2018 10:31 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBEva Mošpánová is a journalist for the Czech public radio, she writes for the iRozhlas.cz, which is a fairly newly developed news website of the broadcasting company. We spoke with Eva, because she knows the Czech media market, she has covered it in the past writing for Marketing & Media magazine and also worked for other different media outlets. Czech republic has seen many changes in the media landscape in the last few years, when oligarchs and politicians bought up stakes in traditional m...
How Pod črto in Slovenia crowdfunded investigative reporting and what’s next
January 29, 2018 07:16 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWe spoke with Taja Topolovec, the co-founder of Pod črto (in Eng., ‘The Bottom Line’). It is a Slovenian independent and non-profit media outlet focusing on investigative reporting, data journalism and in-depth stories, founded in September 2014. Their projects include in-depth analysis of the prevalence and reasons for violent crime in Slovenia, uncovering corruption among Slovenia’s mayors and investigating fraud, mismanagement of European funds, illegal gathering of personal information b...
nwzer is building a citizen journalism platform with AI and blockchain
January 22, 2018 07:58 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBKarim Maassen is a Dutch entrepreneur and web fanatic, he is also the founder of nwzer. nwzer is an AI and blockchain assisted, user-generated news agency. It is the world’s first artificial intelligence & blockchain powered citizen journalism platform. According do Karim, nwzer seeks to harness the wisdom of the crowds, remove advertising from the equation and build on trust. We had a long discussion about blockchain, why he would rather not use the word when explaining nwzer and how he s...
Journalists from Baltics: Russia isn't our obsession, we define our own journalism
December 18, 2017 07:29 - 1 hour - 75 MBOn this week's and this year's last podcast episode we spoke to three journalists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania about what is happening with media and journalism in their countries. Liepa Zelniene is a political journalist for 15min in Lithuania. In 2016 she has started a fact checking unit inside her newsroom. Marian Männi is a journalist, media analyst and data fan. She has worked for the biggest Estonian media and is the co-founder of a fixing agency called fixers.press. Filips Las...
The Daily inspired news podcast in Slovakia started out as an experiment and continues to grow
December 04, 2017 07:29 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBDavid talks about the daily news podcast that SME.sk in Slovakia has launched one month ago. The podcast reached 100.000 listens (plays, downloads…) in one month. At the beginning there was a two-week period experimenting with different formats and after that the podcast went live. If you want to know more about this, listen in. Related reading: https://medium.com/check-your-facts/here-is-why-the-podcast-revolution-has-not-happened-in-europe-yet-39d9807f95b8
Brands should not pay for investigative journalism, says Johannes Klingebiel
November 27, 2017 08:57 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBJohannes works for Die Süddeutsche Zeitung at their Brand Studio and also works on innovation there. He is interested in the future of publishing, advertising, also AI and chatbots. We talked with him about branded content and native advertising, chatbots, AI and voice assistants. Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Klingebeil Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/klingebeil/ Newsletter (german): http://johannesklingebiel.de/ Facebook group "Edgeland Reisegruppe": https://www.facebook.com/g...
The roles in the newsrooms are changing, just look at the job boards says Federica Cherubini
November 20, 2017 06:48 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBFederica Cherubini is the International Head of Knowledge Sharing at Condé Nast International. Her role leverages and supports the exchange of knowledge, ideas, contacts and best practice cases between editorial, commercial and product teams of the CNI's portfolio across eleven countries. Previously, she was part of the Digital News Project team at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, for which she wrote, together with Director of Research Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, the re...
NewsMavens brings a female perspective to news and relies on collaboration
November 12, 2017 00:00 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBLea Berriault is the managing editor of NewsMavens, currently overseeing the day-to-day editorial activities of NewsMavens.com, a Google DNI-funded daily news roundup from top women editors in Europe. NewsMavens is a collaboration between partnering news organizations. Each newspaper, broadcaster, magazine or portal has designated a woman journalist or editor to curate stories from their media to our collective round-up. Newsmavens: https://newsmavens.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com...
Kat Downs Mulder talks about graphic storytelling and skills in a modern team of journalists
November 05, 2017 19:10 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBKat Downs Mulder is Graphics Director at The Washington Post. She and her team are responsible for infographics, news apps and digital story design at the Post. We met her at the News Impact Summit in Budapest, where Kat was presenting the way they do the graphic work at the Washington Post. We decided that you also need to know this and so we invited her to talk about the Post's graphic development, their different approaches on mobile and social – and on the newspaper. In the end you may...
Filip Struhárik sees media pages losing ground in Slovakia due to Facebook’s Newsfeed tests
October 25, 2017 18:01 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBFilip Struhárik is editor and social media manager at Denník N, one of Slovakia's news platform. He recently discovered a huge loss of media pages' reach on Facebook and wrote about it. We talk with him about the tests Facebook is doing in Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Bolivia, Guatemala and Cambodia (plus Indonesia) where all page posts are banned from the Newsfeed and put into its new Explore feed. Filip Struhárik TW: https://twitter.com/filip_struharik FB: https://www.facebook.com/struhar...
Memberships and optimizing for trust. We talked to Emily Goligoski of the Membership Puzzle Project
October 22, 2017 21:35 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBEmily Goligoski is Research Director for the Membership Puzzle Project, which is is founded by NYU professor Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 program and De Correspondent. Emily acts as an advocate for news consumers and delivers actionable insights to media organizations. She was the first user experience research lead in The New York Times newsroom and brought design research to Mozilla Foundation. She is a board member of the education non-profit Youth Radio and holds degrees from Northwestern and S...
Journalists need to improve their skills. Beata Biel talks about journalism issues
October 09, 2017 01:45 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBWe talked to Beata Biel of TVN 24 who was a trainer for Google News Lab, traveled around many european newsrooms and has a lot to share about her experiences. Beata Biel Twitter: https://twitter.com/beatabiel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beatabiel/ Web: https://beatabiel.com/ VSquare: https://vsquare.org/investigations/ Onet.pl: https://www.onet.pl/ Onet app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.onet.onethd Onet app on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/on...
Hello from Budapest, we finally met in person
September 11, 2017 17:03 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBMarc and David met for the first time on a conference in Budapest, here is a quick dispatch, a proper episode coming next week.
The media is the enemy, Orbán agrees with Trump. András Pethő on journalism in Hungary
September 03, 2017 20:25 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBFor the first time we speak to a Hungarian journalist. His name is András Pethő and he is the co-founder & editor at the investigative project called Direkt36. András spent much of his 14-year-long journalism career at Origo, with some longer stints abroad. He worked for 15 months for the BBC World Service and did two journalism fellowships in the United States. In 2013 he spent 8 months with the investigative unit of The Washington Post. We talked to András about investigative journalism i...
Media laws in the information age: lawyer Peter Hense on digital policy for Facebook and Co.
August 27, 2017 20:28 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWhy is Germany so precise when it comes to law making? And does this affect the rest of Europe? Peter Hense is a lawyer in Leipzig, Germany, and is specialised in technology and media law. In this episode we talk with him about german law drafts affecting Google and Facebook and what these platforms think about that. Yes, law is complex, but Peter explains it in an understandable way. Peter Hense >> Twitter: twitter.com/peterhense >> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/peter-hense-19861318/ Spirit ...
Hackastory takes over: Hackathons, newsgames and design thinking in journalism
August 21, 2017 01:01 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBHow to change journalism for better? Albertine Piels and Nienke Huitenga from Hackastory have some tips and also teach us how to analyze our audience (but you have to listen all the way till the end). Albertine and Nienke both work and are Hackastory which has a very clear mission: Changing journalism for the better. Their work formula goes like this: Idea + Experiment + Test = WOW In the podcast episode we talk about Hackastory and their mission, we dive deep into hackathons and find out...
How to do innovative storytelling in 2017? Jakub Gornicki of Outriders has some tips
August 13, 2017 21:39 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBWe talked to Jakub about his newly founded project/initiative Outriders about how he is building it, what is the thinking behind content and distribution and what are his goals. Jakub has been in media and journalism in Poland for some years now, working on open data and travel blogging. He also tells us a little bit about the media situation in his country. Apart from that we talked a lot about podcasting in Europe, about different distribution channels and why newsletters are still very i...
Connecting journalists to new ideas? The mission ahead of Adam Thomas, the EJC director
July 12, 2017 07:55 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBWe spoke to Adam Thomas, the still new director of The European Journalism Centre (EJC). We talked about his interesting journey to journalism, what EJC is doing at the moment and also touched upon the topic of the role of Facebook and Google towards journalism. Adam is an award-winning journalism and technology leader. In his previous role as Chief Product Officer at Storyful, he was responsible for the vision and delivery of over 20 innovative journalism products to 150 of the world’s big...
DataFest founder: You can do much more in a small country than you can do in London
July 03, 2017 21:30 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBNino is data journalist from Georgia (the country, not the state). She is the president of the Digital Communication Network, the co-Founder of ForSet (a new enterprise for helping with data a dataviz journalism) and the founder of the upcoming DataFest, which will be held in Tbilisi in November. We talked a lot about journalism, about small country advantages compered to US or UK and discussed Nino’s recent projects, among them the Data Festival, which will be all about data. Nino Macharas...
How to stay on top of things? Marc and David have some tips
June 26, 2017 18:31 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBMarc and David talk together, once again without a host, this time about staying informed and how do you educate yourself. How do you stay professionally informed and up to speed with your industry. Useful links: Save to Facebook https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-facebook/jmfikkaogpplgnfjmbjdpalkhclendgd Nuzzel: http://nuzzel.com/ Pocket https://getpocket.com 28+ Apps That Make Your Journalist’s Life Easier Than Ever https://medium.com/digital-journalism-rocks/28-apps-tha...
We take a mobile view on things. And also talk Spectacles arrival to Europe
June 18, 2017 21:55 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBThis time without any guest we talk about how mobile first is still more a conference talk than a real initiative among publishers. Spectatles arrives to Europe and we talk about how this might impact things. How many active users does Snapchat have in France, Germany and elsewhere? Do you know? Snapchat brings its hip round Spectacles to Europe https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/02/snapchat-round-spectacles-europe-snap-inc If you have any ideas or feedback, let us know and be...
Do you have adblocking problems? Here is how a Swiss publisher deals with it
June 11, 2017 21:58 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBOur next guest is not a journalist, though he works for a publisher in Switzerland. Javier Vázquez Rodríguez a product manager for AZ Medien and he talked to us about adblocking. Since last year he and his team have been running different adblocking tests to figure out how users react to requests to turn off adblockers. He talks to us about these experiments, the outcomes and takeaways and we have a great discussion about the role of online ads. Follow Javier on LinkedIn: https://www.linke...
Biggest issues in journalism? We talk with Journalism.co.uk and the NiemanLab staff writers
June 04, 2017 14:38 - 48 minutes - 45 MBIn this episode we talk about: • the difference in approach to writing about journalism on NiemanLab.org and Journalism.co.uk • what are the biggest issues of journalism at the moment (US & EU) • how can news organisations regain trust • what are the next big thing in journalism Our guest were: Mădălina Ciobanu Website: https://madalinaciobanu.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/madalinacrc Articles: http://bit.ly/2rz2GIj Shan Wang Twitter: https://twitter.com/shansquared Articles: http://ww...
The future of work is decentralised and connected, according to coworking manager Tobias Schwarz
May 26, 2017 19:27 - 39 minutes - 37 MBIn this episode we talk about work, working habits, newsroom setups and how can you escape your office if you want to. Our guest managed to do it and nobody noticed for weeks. We talk to the Coworking Manager at St. Oberholz and co-founder of the German Coworking Federation - Tobias Schwarz. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isarmatrose Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isarmatrose St. Oberholz Coworking Space: http://sanktoberholz.de/ Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com/
How to do news for generation Z? We talk about Le Monde's Snapchat strategy
May 21, 2017 06:30 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBLe Monde's strategy for Snapchat Discover: Good storytelling and listening to audience feedback. This week we talked to Jean-Guillaume Santi, who is the Le Monde's Snapchat Discover team leader. Jean-Guillaume gives us a sneak peak into the everyday operation of his team. Also we talk about Le Monde's approach to younger audiences. Jean-Guillaume Santi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgsanti?lang=en Le Monde profile: http://www.lemonde.fr/journaliste/jean-guillaume-santi/ Le Monde on Snapch...
Work together, innovate together. We talk journalism innovation tips by Tilman Wagner
May 12, 2017 13:48 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBOur guest Marc Biskup is returning to the podcast as co-host and will be co-hosting Check Your Facts from now on. Hope you like what you hear. Let us know. And our news guest is Tilman Wagner of the Deutsche Welle innovation team. We talk a lot about DW, the innovation team, some media trouble in Germany and interesting projects done by DW and the innovation team. Tilman Wagner Twitter: https://twitter.com/twone2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twoneplus/ DW Innovation: http://blogs.dw...
We take one week break. Only to bring more interesting interviews
May 04, 2017 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.36 MBThanks for tuning in. We will come back with new fresh interviews next week. We are preparing interviews with industry leaders and journalism thinkers. Stay tuned. And don't forget to always Check Your Facts!
When is collaboration healthy? Almost always, according to Matt Cooke of Google News Lab
April 27, 2017 20:54 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBHow should you think about your digital identity? Should you trust Google? And Facebook? What is Google doing for news and media? We talk to Matt Cooke, lead of Google News Lab in UK, Ireland, and the Nordic, about the platforms eating the internet, the Digital Identities workshops in northern Europe, and Google's efforts to make peace with the news industry. Links: Google News Lab: https://newslab.withgoogle.com/ News Impact Summit: https://newsimpact.io/ Stratechery about Google: https://s...
Ask for forgiveness, not for permission – the recipe for digital innovation and transformation
April 20, 2017 20:52 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBIs The Outline too bold? Does Medium consist of a platonic nothingness? And is the news industry being totally completely wiped out by the social platforms? We discuss digital design, innovation, and storytelling features with Wojtek Gròjec, digital editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Links: RFE 4-part story The Manhoff Archives: http://www.rferl.org/a/the-manhoff-archive/28359558.html The web looks like shit: https://theoutline.com/post/1165/the-web-looks-like-shit RFE story on Siber...
What do Perugia and Stockholm have in common? We talk trust in journalism
April 14, 2017 08:29 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBHenrik and Dávid talk about the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, which you should all go to next year. They also dissect the recent terrorist attack in Stockholm, and discuss the aftermath of the attack, when Swedish media were heavily criticized and accused of spreading false news. Links Journalism festival: http://www.journalismfestival.com/ Videos from festival: https://youtube.com/user/festivalgiornalismo Fake new field guide: http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ Articles fr...
Flashy and pretty visual graphics are boring – give us context and meaning!
April 06, 2017 19:39 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB[We are very sorry for lower sound quality] We talk to the visual storytelling specialist Rachel Schallom about the next hit in interactive storytelling – auto play graphics – and what NOT to do when including interactive/visual elements in your projects. Rachel is an editor for hire specializing in visual, data and investigative journalism. She was the director of Interactives at Fusion and is a regular speaker at conferences nationwide and internationally. Links: Rachel on Twitter: htt...
Stop wasting money, hire a freelancer! We talk freelance journalism and explain HackPack
March 30, 2017 19:43 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBFarah Mohammed is a nomadic journalist, based wherever there’s an internet connection. She has a particular interest in digital journalism and exploring innovation in media. Currently, she is the Chief Marketing Officer and Lead of the Americas at HackPack.press, a contributor to the international women’s rights platform Girls’ Globe, but she will soon be "up for grabs." You want to know why she's decided to leave HackPack? Listen to the episode and you'll find out! Links: Farah on Twitter: ...
Music has DJs, Journalism has VJs. We talk VR, 360 video & future of immersive storytelling
March 23, 2017 16:18 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBIn the sixth episode of the Check Your Facts podcast, we tell the story of a German VR company shaping the future of VR in media business, and discuss the potential for VR and AR experiences in digital journalism with video expert Susanne Dickel. Links: IntoVR: http://intovr.de/ & https://twitter.com/IntoVR Student project in Lausitz: http://www.360lausitz.de/ Dagens Nyheter's VR project, DN.VR: http://vr.dn.se/ Clouds over Sidra: https://with.in/watch/clouds-over-sidra/ Christiane Wittenbec...
Is viral audio a thing? We review Anchor, and discuss the future of podcasts
March 16, 2017 09:19 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBEverybody knows what viral video is. But have you ever heard of viral audio? What is the future of audio journalism and podcasts? This is some of the things we discuss with Marc Biskup, Social Media Manager at MDR Sachsen-Anhalt in Magdeburg, Germany. Also, we review the "radio by the people" app Anchor's major redesign. Links: Angry caller thinks that one word is pronounced incorrectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj0prlOfB0 Readers of BILD hate the satire magfazine Titanic (in German)...
Why should we make email newsletters great again?
March 09, 2017 18:47 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBThe email newsletter is dead. Long live the email newsletter! Nikky Hofland, Product Owner at Revue in the Netherlands, talks about the resurgence of the email newsletter, and explains why personal newsletters is the new black.
Experiment or perish: Why The Guardian creates stuff for a 20 people audience
March 02, 2017 19:23 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe Guardian editor Sasha Koren about the The Guardian's Mobile Innovation Lab – which is explicitly NOT addressing monetization, instead figuring out what formats might be appealing for users, and sharing that information publicly.
Stop complaining! Journalism is changing. Deal with it
February 23, 2017 13:11 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBPrior to the recording of this episode – partly recorded in Warsaw during the Rockit Digital Summit – our special guest star Viorel Pahomi, political talkshow host at Realitatea TV Moldova in Chișinău, held a passionate speech about all that's wrong with the digital journalism of today. And that passion quickly turns Check Your Facts episode 2 into a doomsday episode, but it is somewhat averted with a great/horrible sense of Swedish humor... ;)
Why do we need communities for journalists? Lina Timm, founder of the DJR community, has the answer
February 16, 2017 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBLina Timm founded the Slack community Digital Journalism Rocks a year ago, and it's growing fast. In the very first episode of Check Your Facts, Lina talks about innovation, the tiresome media legacy, and the necessity of discussing digital journalism among journalists.
Teaser Episode - David & Henrik introduce the podcast
February 07, 2017 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.13 MBCheck Your Facts is a podcast about journalism, by journalists, for everyone. The podcast is hosted by David & Henrik. David Tvrdon is a data journalist and Project Manager at Dennik SME in Bratislava, Slovakia. Henrik Ståhl is a journalist and Product Owner at Bonnier News in Stockholm, Sweden. They first met online through the Slack community Digital Journalism Rocks in June 2016. Check Your Facts podcast will bring weekly interviews with leading journalists and media innovators from Euro...