This year I have had the opportunity to visit America as a World Press Institute Fellow. When an email this spring confirmed my selection to the...
Lessons to take back home
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Personal Reflections
The return of partisan journalism
In my home country, Finland, the great majority of newspapers are non-affiliated and independent. Party newspapers and reporters are a curiosity....
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with ”the Mooch” recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and,...
Two minutes to midnight
I grew up in a border town in Finland. The nearest Russian town, Svetogorsk, was only a few miles away from my home. Living so near to a gigantic...
Out with the old, in with the… news?
The first newsroom I worked in had rats, and I’m not just speaking about the bosses. It was in an old two-story shophouse in Phnom Penh, and we...
Mayor Pete and gay rights in America
When a little-known politician named Barack Obama first announced he was running for president I didn’t think he stood a chance. “Sadly, Americans...
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