Ståle Grut | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Ståle Grut

Ståle Grut is the acting editor of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s R&D-lab, NRKbeta.

Visual investigations become a mainstay of news

“Visual investigations are poised to move from niche desks to standard operating procedure in newsrooms in 2025.”

The press adopts a new level of transparency around images

“The press has often been light on contextual information and details about the images they use.”

Your newsroom experiences a Midjourney-gate, too

“The pressing need for rules and guidelines for creating or using AI-generated content, should spawn a broader review of how images are treated by the news media.”

Manipulated media will fool you — yes, you

“We need to prepare for a new normal, where scrutinizing online images and videos is as natural as being fascinated by them.”

Network analysis enters the journalism toolbox

“Social media companies have never been much help when it comes to helping their users understand how content flows on their platforms. That makes it simultaneously more difficult and more important for journalists to cover it.”

OSINT journalism goes mainstream

“An OSINT investigation is not one single method to get at truth, but rather a combination of creative and critical thinking to navigate digital sources on the web.”

A new dawn for 3D tech in journalism

“In 2019, we’ll see great improvements in mobile 3D volumetric capture, a technology that enables the digitization of three-dimensional space.”

Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

“Even if our solutions were very simple, we could not have implemented them on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It asserts an unfakeable truth of civic responsibility: If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”

The battle for high-quality VR

“It’s time to acknowledge that your audience does not need to see your every stumble on the way to virtual reality greatness.”