Author: Minna Asikainen

2016 WPI Fellow

Content manager, News and current affairs department of Yle
Helsinki, Finland


Posts by Minna Asikainen:

”So, what do you think of us?”

”So, what do you think of us?”

One question has been repeated over and over again as we´ve been travelling around the country. People kept asking it in northern Minnesota, in the newsrooms of the eastern coast legacy media, in the deep south and in the relaxed California. “We are in middle of this...
What are the hipsters going to do?

What are the hipsters going to do?

The hipsters of Brooklyn are about to make big decisions – maybe not for just for themselves but for others too. History is very much about momentum. After visiting a middle school in Brooklyn I felt there might be one coming very soon. The hipsters are known...
“I want to be a Policoficer!”

“I want to be a Policoficer!”

  “We try to teach our young boys that there are other career options than gangsters or sportspeople”. This is what a well-known educator said to our WPI-group at a low-income neighborhood in Minneapolis. Police shootings in the US (including...