Agribusiness

Naturstyrelsen tvang forskere til at slette kobber-konklusioner

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Naturstyrelsen tvang forskere til at slette tre afgørende afsnit i et notat om kobberforgiftning. Vildtforvaltningsrådet besluttede herefter, at der ikke var behov for flere undersøgelser af kobber i vildt – direkte i modstrid med forskernes oprindelige konklusioner. Smågrise får store mængder kobbersulfat i foder for at øge tilvækst og begrænse diarré. Kobber er også tilsat i sliksten, som den øverst i billedet. Kobberet kommer via gylle på markerne og kan optages af vildtet.

Agribusiness

Coverage of stop of GMO corn in Europe

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Investigative Reporting Denmark on the 29th of May 2013 published the story on Monsanto halting production of genetically modified corn in all of Europe, except Spain, Portugal and Czech Republic. Since then there has been a lot of coverage of this round the World. Two days after Investigative Reporting Denmark broke the story, the German daily “Taz” did a story with a German angle, quoting a Monsanto-spokesman from Germany on the same message. That story was quoted by Reuters the same day and the story then went round the World. Here are some examples with links to the coverage:

Internal

Editorial board for Investigative Reporting Denmark selected

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An editorial board for Investigative Reporting Denmark have been selected by the board. The group on five members will work as a draft editorial board until they are formally elected at the next annual meeting. Christian Jensen is chairman of the editorial board. He is editor-in-chief at the danish daily Information. He has a long background as investigative reporter and editor for investigative projects.

Internal

Brigitte Alfter win media freedom prize

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Investigative Reporting Denmarks Brigitte Alfter together with Tongam Rina from India, Jörg Armbruster and Martin Durm from Germany and Ides Debruyne from Belgium are laureates of the “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” 2013. Brigitte Alfter get a new media award. “With the prize, the foundation honours five individuals, who bravely und courageously show commitment to the freedom of press. The prize, which is endowed with 30.000 Euros, will personally be awarded to the laureates on October 8, 2012 in Leipzig,” writes the Media Foundation in the press release. Since 2001, the Media Foundation awards its “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” to journalists, publishers and institutions who show a strong personal commitment to the freedom and future of the media.

Documentation

Publishing Google Maps for smartphone and PC

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We have now found a model to publish a story with different versions of Google Maps – depending on the users device. Look at this story to see how it is done:
145 risikovirksomheder i Danmark

Try to look at the story from both a smartphone and tablet/PC. Two versions in Google Layer Wizard

We have made two different versions of the Google Map using Google Fusion and Layer Wizard. From Layer Wizard the code is extracted and uploaded as html-files to a server for both maps. Most important for the smartphone-version is:

Size: 290*290 pixels.

Hazardous Companies

Forsvaret oplyser om alle 55 oliedepoter

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Forsvaret har overraskende givet aktindsigt i placeringen af alle deres store olietanke. Tidligere har den slags oplysninger været betragtet som militære hemmeligheder, som ikke skulle frem. Nu viser Investigative Reporting Denmark de 55 olieanlæg på et kort. I et svar på en aktindsigtsansøgning til Åbenhedstinget oplyser Forsvaret om placeringen af de 55 anlæg. Forsvaret angiver vejnavn og postnummer, men ikke husnummeret for det enkelte anlæg.

Hazardous Companies

145 risikovirksomheder i Danmark

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Investigative Reporting Denmark offentliggør nu den samlede opdaterede liste over risikovirksomheder i Danmark. I dag er der 145 risikovirksomheder, hvoraf de 54 er de farlige kolonne-3 virksomheder, dvs. større lagre af olie, gas, fyrværkeri, kemikalier eller andet farligt indhold. Miljømyndighederne vedligeholder ikke selv en sådan liste over de virksomheder, der ifølge EU’s Sevesodirektiv og den danske risikobekendtgørelse er defineret som farlige virksomheder og som derfor kræver en særlig sikkerhedsgodkendelse og for de farligste (kolonne-3) også en beredskabsplan. Se Miljøstyrelsens beskrivelse af risikovirksomheder.

Agribusiness

GMO lose Europe – victory for environmental organisations

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Monsanto will halt production of genetically modified corn in all of Europe, except Spain, Portugal and Czech republic. The agribusiness multinational states not to spend any more money on trials, development, marketing, court cases or anything else to get GM corn accepted in Europe. Quiet decision last year
”In Europe Monsanto only sells GM corn in three countries. GM corn represents less than 1% of the EU’s corn cultivation by land area. Field trials are only in progress in three countries.

ICIJ
Investigations

ICIJ publish impressive stories on offshore tax havens

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After the biggest leak of documents ever to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists they have investigated tax havens. In total they have gone through 2,5 mio. emails and other documents about 130.000 people in 170 countries. [View the story “ICIJ publish impressive stories on offshore tax havens” on Storify]ICIJ publish impressive stories on offshore tax havensAfter the biggest leak of documents ever to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists they have investigated tax havens. In total they have gone through 2,5 mio.