Maarten Lambrechts

Summary Engineer in land and forest management by formation, agricultural economist and development worker by experience, communication and new internet technology adept by interest and auto education. Landed in journalism, with a focus on online, datajournalism and datavisualisation. Polyglot, tech savvy and socially motivated.

Specialties: datajournalism, datavisualisation, cartography, writing Experience

Data & multimedia editor Mediafin August 2014 – Present (1 year 6 months)Brussels Area, Belgium Data consultant, visualizer and storyteller Self-Employed September 2013 – Present (2 years 5 months) As an engineer I know numbers, as a journalist I know storytelling. Datavisualisation tells the stories hidden in data. I can help you understand your data and support you building a powerful datastory for your clients, colleagues, bosses and the general public. (Open)1 project Web director MO* magazine December 2010 – August 2014 (3 years 9 months)Brussels Area, Belgium Managing MO.be (news site of MO*magazine) and ipsnews.be (website of press agency IPS Flanders). Management involves technical aspects (Drupal) and content management, writing and editing. (Open)1 project Project coordinator Regionaal Landschap Dijleland September 2008 – December 2010 (2 years 4 months) Communication and education facilitator Volens January 2008 – August 2008 (8 months) Agricultural economist Volens April 2006 – March 2008 (2 years) Agricultural economist Vlaamse Landmaatschappij April 2004 – March 2006 (2 years) Projects

Digital story: Scharnieren van de wereldhandelsvaart(Link) August 2013 – August 2013 Interactive map that tells the story of important locations in world cargo shipping through text, images and video. MO.be(Link) February 2014 We started on MO.be several years ago, migrating it from Typ3 to Drupal. At that time, there were about 20.000 articles. It was a rough start, we had to optimise Drupal 6 in several ways before getting it to an acceptable level. In January-February 2014, we migrated MO.be to a fully new Drupal 7 setup, including advanced editing possibilities. Over 35.000 articles and counting, MO.be was rebuilt...more 4 team members Maarten Lambrechts Maarten Lambrechts Data & multimedia editor at Mediafin Kurt Maet Kurt Maet Owner, Coworks Donny Carette Donny Carette Project Coördinator / Drupal Team lead at Coworks No photo Kevin Van Lerbeirghe Languages

SpanishEnglishFrenchDutch Publications

W@ mijn is, dijn is - article in MO*magazine(Link) MO*magazine November 28, 2012 4 page article in monthly magazine MO*, about how the internet makes people share instead of own through collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer and open access. Skills

Top Skills 8Journalism

5Online Journalism

4Drupal

2Web Development

2SEO

1Datajournalism

1Web Content Management

1Web Editing

1Digital Journalism

1Internet

Maarten also knows about... 1Google Analytics 1GIS Data Visualization Google Earth Digital Storytelling Education

University of Leuven University of Leuven Master, Forestry and Nature Conservation 1998 – 2003 Sint-Jozefscollege Aarschot 1992 – 1998 Additional Info

Interests New internet technology, Google Earth, maps, cartography, environment, development, photography, design, beekeeping