Hi, I'm Laura Bejder!
I am a Danish data and visual journalist with experience covering politics, business, and finance in the US and Europe.
I've worked as the data intern at Bloomberg News and previously, I used data to cover Danish and European politics at one of Denmark’s leading online political news outlets altinget.dk. I am a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where I completed a Master's in Data Journalism.
I love anything involving data analysis and graphics, and I am excited to use those tools to find and tell stories. In my free time, I love to turn any creative idea into knitwear
I analyzed daily sales data to show that US companies relying heavily on Black Friday sales, had seen an overall decline in Black Friday sales compared to previous years.
I analysed consumer spending data on a group of higher end brands and showed a decline in sales which could point to a slowing down of the overall consumer economy. The analysis was a two-step process: first identifying the companies and then analyzing the development in their sales.
I parced over several decades of contracts for major US workers unions to show that the recent years' union agreements has brought forward some of the biggest wins for workers including higher wages and better benefits.
I collected the historical wages of UAW auto workers from union contracts and adjusted them by various inflation indices to show how the real wages have declined over the past decades – prior to the most recent UAW auto agreements.
Investigative project about the opaque partnerships between private for-profit companies and US public universities. The data analysed was collected by filing more than 100 foia requests to public universities.
Data driven story about how breast cancer survivors use knitting to create breast prostheses and their popularity on the knitting platform Ravelry.com.
At a street corner in Brooklyn, Latina immigrants assemble in search of a day's work but poor labor control and shortage of employment makes them vulnerable to low wages and labor violations.
The past 20 years, the Senate has moved from a broad bipartisan consensus on most confirmations of federal circuit judges to now confirming judges on slim partisan majorities.
NYC rideshare drivers protested in front of the MTA's Manhattan office. The drivers feared that the plan to impose congestion charges could put them out of business.
I wrote a python script that creates an automated webscraper that scrapes the energy prices in Europe daily. The data is automatically visualized using updating datawrapper graphics.
In the first six months of 2022, 75 retail workplaces held union elections. This is an increase from 29 elections in the first six months of 2021 and 56 in the second half of 2021.
New York City is expanding its bike infrastructure to accommodate increased traffic, but the city is still dangerous by international standards.