Espen Andersen has been involved in journalism since the beginning of the 90's, and is now working as a Development Editor in Kommunal Rapport. He has previously worked for 12 years as a researcher and developer at the documentary and social department at NRK, and before that as a journalist and editorial developer at Budstikka. Espen is a former member of the Norwegian Editors' Association's "technology squadron". He has written the book "Datastøttet Journalistikk", which was published in 2013.


Talk at MCB Hack:

Computer-aided journalism in practice Who got the first idea to use the computer to improve journalism? It happened earlier than you might think. In this talk, we will take a short journey through the history of computer journalism, before we take a closer look at how computer programming enables us to create journalism that otherwise would not have been possible.