TU won the day two of three prizes for best digital journalism under NONA16, the annual conference of the Association Nona, also called network heads.
Nona stands for Norwegian online news association, and is a union that is particularly concerned with digital media development in Norway.
TU received the award for best digital journalism for efforts to reveal that employees in NPRA own shares for millions in the agency’s biggest suppliers of journalist Roald Ramsdal and develops Ruben Solvang.
Further, TU-editor Svein-Erik Hole year net head for having distinguished himself clearly in the media industry by sharing their own experiences with editorial restructuring, digital methods and innovation.
Grave journalism
TU won in the category best digital journalism in small editorial for Vegvesen case. The jury believes TU impresses by its sophisticated use of data, including scraping by several websites and links multiple databases.
Efforts to document the shareholdings of employees of the Public Roads Administration was done partly by automating comparison of data using computer-aided tools.
– In addition to good storytelling, winner takes social mission seriously and show that good dig journalism is good dig journalism – digitally, according to the jury.
developer skills
RU developer Ruben Solvang said they had never come to find out the truth about the had done digging job manually.
– We learned a lot from the process. Great cred to journalist Roald Ramsdal who was crazy enough to ask a developer for help, not to mention Vegard Venli Kommunal Rapport who worked for several years to open the shareholder register, as the whole thing is based on, Solvang says.
TU-editor Svein-Erik Hole think it’s very nice when TU go home two of the three prizes awarded by just Nona. The association works to drive good journalism online ahead.
– Computer aided journalism is becoming increasingly important. That we have people like Ruben in the newsroom, enabling us to get answers to things that we previously only had theses on. Although we are a small newsroom, I believe this is important resource use, said Hole.
This year’s net head
The jury pointed out that TU-editor Svein-Erik Hole has kept tens of lectures for Norwegian media companies in recent years, while he holds regular courses at the Institute of Journalism and scoops of its digital knowledge to numerous countries.
– this person has many merits and good results with it, which is achieved both alone and with others, “said the jury of the year net head in 2016.
the jury has also notified that TU editor worked every night and weekend to nurture tu.no when shifts cabal does not go up.
quality before quantity
– this person is concerned about quality rather than quantity as editorial standards, knowing that clear differentiation and depth also provide the best return commercially, states in justification.
Hole, who last year was named the year’s Innovator of the Norwegian Association of Editors, was surprised by the award.
– It is a personal honor, but I feel I get it because I have become a figurehead for an expert environment of journalists, developers and sellers says Hole.
– Part of the rationale is how TU has changed from being paper-based to a business that is now largely digital. It should be both CEO and Editor Jan M. Moberg, and owners Nito and Tekna have their share of the credit for, says Hole.
TU was also recently named ‘niche website under Nordic media days in Bergen.
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