So happy that our project «Inequality for the law» is on the shortlist. 🏆 Lucky to have been collaborating with the talented people at @lighthousereports.com. @elenadebre.bsky.social @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social @jusbraun.bsky.social

Global Investigative Journalism Network@gijn.org · last yr.

💫 NEW! GIJN, the new home of the Sigma Awards, is proud to announce the 2025 shortlist for the best data journalism projects and portfolios in the past year. 👏 50 data journalism projects from 24 countries made it to the final round of the competition. https://twp.ai/9PSjQG

Norway’s criminal justice system has often received high praise for its equity and fairness; it has rarely been under scrutiny in data-driven criminal justice journalism.

Over the past few months, we have been trying to understand whether who you are plays a role in how you are sentenced in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system: Norway bsky.app/profile/lhre...

Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 2y ago

In 2022, two men were convicted for driving under the influence. Frank in a cheap, old car, unemployed with debt. Jakob in a new, expensive Audi, worth millions. Their cases were nearly identical, but their sentences could not have been further apart.

The crimes you’re convicted of should determine your punishment, not who you are. But even in Norway – one of the “fairest” criminal justice systems – @lhreports.bsky.social & NRK reveal that there are disparities in sentence length by income and gender www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

How we investigated sentencing bias in Norway’s criminal justice system

Norway’s criminal justice system is regularly hailed as a model — but is it truly impartial?

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