Nicolas Kayser-Bril

This is the write-up of a talk I gave at the SciCAR conference in Dortmund on September 7, 2017.

I wrote this post on June 4th, 2016.

Am 13.7.2017 bin ich Deutscher geworden.

Airports are fascinating places.

Ever since I started to study history, I’ve been obsessed with one question.

J’ai été témoin de ces histoires en Géorgie, en juin 2017.

Un soir de mai dernier, mon ami Gaylord Vermouth1 m’a reproché de dénoncer les travers du système politique sans donner « les clés pour comprendre ».

In early April 2017, together with Pierre Romera and Anne-Lise Bouyer, we decided to shut down Journalism++ Paris/Berlin, the datajournalism agency we created over five years earlier (Journalism++ Porto and Stockholm, our sister companies, are not affected

J’ai assisté à une audience de correctionnelle (enfin, son équivalent allemand).

One day of April 2014, I found myself in a conference room, on the top floor of a brand new building, in a top European university.

This short essay follows a round table organized by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford in December 2016.

J’ai écrit ce post avant la primaire socialiste, pensant que Valls serait candidat.

Chers ami-e-s, Vous m’avez dit ces derniers temps que j’étais maussade, parano, voire carrément chiant.

Upon advice from Nikos S., I read Inventing the Future, Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, by two British academics in their late 30’s, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams.

I’ve made this argument before but, after the Trump election, it bears repeating.

Pour changer des essais, j’ai écrit une nouvelle.

This essay was written for my talk at the MINDS conference in Copenhagen, on 20 October 2016.

This essay was written for the Retreat Conference 2016 organized at Athens, Greece, on September 24th, 2016.

Many people see the current political atmosphere in Europe as a storm to weather away.

The concept of “Eastern Europe” was born after the second world war, when the Allied powers agreed on spheres of influence on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

With Mario Tedeschini Lalli, we wrote an application for funding to Google’s Digital News Initiative, based on Mario’s vision for an offshore journalism.

This essay was written for the Transparency Camp of Vilnius, Lithuania, where I was, together with Anne-Lise Bouyer, invited to give a lecture on “the power of open data”.

This is the first part of a series on the evolution of power dynamics in Europe.

Cet essai est la base de ma présentation à l’école d’été de l’INRIA qui se tient à Marseille du 18 au 22 septembre 2016.

My keynote at the Nordics Datajournalism Conference in Helsinki: Why it’s important for datajournalists to be more careful with government data and should collect more data independently.

I was recently invited to the DiploHack, a hackathon on the topic of transparency for civic tech activists and diplomats of the European Union, hosted by the Council of the EU.

The European Union, as a political project, has failed[1].

On 13 January 2016, I published a tweet denouncing the racist character of a drawing by a Charlie Hebdo staffer.

Le 13 janvier 2016, j’ai publié un tweet dénonçant le caractère raciste d’un dessin d’un membre de Charlie Hebdo.

This essay is written for a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics on data literacy[1].

Since November 13, 2015, the French state has become authoritarian.

Les attentats du 13 novembre 2015 ont été menés par un groupe communiquant sans chiffrement après que leur coordinateur a annoncé l’attaque en février dans un magazine de Daesh[1].

In the past decade, the European Union has failed every test it was put to.

From acquisition to actual use, the value chain of data is often compared to mining.

Just who is responsible for climate change?

Ever since the term entered the European media space in 2009, students or fellow journalists regularly ask me to define datajournalism.

During the summer of 2015, European governments hit hard against journalists.

This is an extended version of a short talk I gave at Newsgeist (video below), a Google-organized gathering of media executives at Helsinki in May 2015.

Upon a recommendation by the always well-inspired Caroline, I recently read Dani Rodrik’s 2012 The Globalization Paradox.

As I was doing research on the definition of journalism by the European Court of Human Rights, I found a ruling from 21 July 2015 which has tremendous implications for the future of journalism in Europe.

Technology increases the pace of change.

Starting a blog in 2004 was cool.

One day, some say, computers will be able to build other computers without human intervention.

In the 20th century, journalists were people who worked in a newsroom, i.e who had access to the means of mass publishing or broadcasting.