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9 June 2021

 
Hello, and welcome to the news and tools delivery from EDJNet.

EDJNet is moving to a new phase, as new members have joined the network, some roles are redistributed, and some workflows and formats are being reassessed. This will probably lead to a slowdown in our editorial production in the coming weeks, but it will result in ensuring the best possible ground for the new investigations that we’ll release in the next months. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, we're glad to inaugurate the entry of El Orden Mundial in our network by sharing for the first time one of their articles. It focuses on the role of the State – which thanks to the economic crisis of 2008 and the pandemic from Covid-19 has returned to the center of the economy – and on the re-nationalisation of leading European companies.

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Europe is no longer afraid of nationalising companies

Nationalising companies is no longer a taboo topic for the European Union's state members. After the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st-century privatisations, the economic crisis of 2008 gave a central role back to State ownership. The COVID-19 outbreak has opened the leading European companies' doors to the public capital, writes Álvaro Merino for El Orden Mundial.

  • Despite the usual German perception of state intervention in private companies as a violation of the free-market orthodoxy, last May, the Merkel government bailed out Lufthansa airline with a 9 billion euros fee in exchange for 20% of its shares.
  • In April 2020, the European Commission changed the Temporary state aid Framework to facilitate state intervention.
  • The debate on the management of publicly owned companies will still have a long road in the EU, its existence however is already a shred of evidence.
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All our articles can be freely republished or reused. Some are available in Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Interested? Write to us!

Our pick

 

How De Tijd approaches interactive storytelling, part 1

For the last couple of years, a part of the digital team at Belgian financial daily De Tijd has been developing digital formats with a strong focus on data-driven journalism. In this article, they explain how they did it.

Bitter Land: Interactive map of mass graves from the wars in the former Yugoslavia

Balkan Insight published a new interactive map that shows information about 42 mass graves from the wars in the former Yugoslavia.


From our partners at the European Data News Hub

 

Germany, France want to curb ‘killer’ Big Tech deals

The EU's biggest economies, Germany and France, as well as the Netherlands, want the bloc to secure beefier powers to stop startups from being swallowed by big tech companies.

Belarus plane diversion raises legal questions

Governments were quick to denounce the diversion of a Ryanair plane by Belarus as an act of "terrorism" and "state-sponsored piracy" – but will the country face legal consequences?

Tools and Tips

Tutorials: Public procurement for journalists

Our partner Civio published a series of videos about public procurement for journalists. Here you can find the complete YouTube playlist.

EDJNet's interfaces

Some of the apps and interfaces for journalists that we developed in the last years now have new URLs and a new server, ensuring a better performance. Click on their name to access the apps:

From the data journalism community

 

The News Impact Summits Online 2021

EDJNet is a partner of the News Impact Summits 2021, which are organised by the European Journalism Centre. This year's edition will focus on two critical topics for today's media industry: data journalism, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
👉 Join the event by registering here!


Data protection in Journalism: Practical Tools

Drawing on the research experience of PANELFIT, a Horizon 2020 project focused on the area of personal data protection within the European legal framework, EDJNet organises a series of free webinars targeted to journalists that will focus on different aspects of the issue with a pan-European angle. The project is carried out in collaboration with OBC Transeuropa and the first webinar, titled "Handling personal data in a pandemic", will be held on June 15th at 16:00.
👉 Register here!
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