Jan 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.comHis last piece of workin Slovakian: www.aktuality.sk/clanok/568007/talianska-mafia-na-slovensku-jej-chapadla-siahaju-aj-do-politiky/in Engl…

Eva 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 …

Bettina 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 Uni…

Eva 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.Czec…

We spoke with Taja Topolovec, the co-founder of Pod ?rto (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, un…

Karim 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 e…

On 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, medi…

David 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:…

Johannes 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/KlingebeilInstagram: https://www.i…

Federica 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 …

Lea 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…

Kat 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 invi…

Filip 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 f…

Emily 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 broug…

We 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/beatabielInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/beatabiel/Web: https://beatabiel.com/VSquare: https://vsquare.org/investigations/ Onet.pl: https://www.one…

Marc and David met for the first time on a conference in Budapest, here is a quick dispatch, a proper episode coming next week.

For the first time we speak to a Hungarian journalist. His name is András Peth? 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 U…

Why 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 ex…

How 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 thi…

We 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…

We 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 Chie…

Nino 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…

Marc 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 Facebookhttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-facebook/jmfikkaogpplgnfjmbjdpalkhclendgdNuzzel: http://nuzzel.com/Pocket…

This 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 http…

Our 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 exp…

In 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 journalismOur guest were:M?d?lina CiobanuWebsite: https://madalinaciobanu.com/Twitter…

In 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/IsarmatroseFacebook: https://w…

Le 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 San…

Our 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 i…

Thanks 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!

How 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 new…

Is 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.rf…

Henrik 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.LinksJournalism festival: http://www.journalismfestiva…

[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 …

Farah 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 …

In 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/IntoVRStudent project in Lausitz: http://www.360la…

Everybody 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 th…

The 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.

The 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.

Prior 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 Chi?in?u, 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…

Lina 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.

Check 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 Digi…