“More Important Than Ever to Be Present,” Says Prominent Reporter in the North Bodø, Northern Norway (High North News): Norway's commercial public service broadcaster, TV2, is cutting photographers at its regional offices, leaving only two reporters to cover half of Norway. The cuts are part of a trend in which Norwegian national media outlets are reducing their physical presence in the districts, according to professor at Nord University.
Who Will Tell the Story of Us in the North? Comment: When Donald Trump was first elected the US president in 2016, it came as a shock to American commentators and journalists. From their fortresses in Washington and New York, they had lost touch with the voters in the rest of the US.
Icelandic Author Couple: Literature Allows Us To Explore Everything, Including the End of the World Harstad (High North News): "We Icelanders never prepare for anything," says the author couple Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir and Jón Kalman Stefánsson. They admire the Norwegian practical preparedness thinking but also remind us of the resistance power of traveling literature and maintain that a preparedness storage must also include a book and a ukulele.
Trine Jonassen is the New Editor-in-Chief of High North News Commentary: High North News prepares for the future. Today, News Editor Trine Jonassen takes over as Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper. However, that does not mean that I plan to quit the newspaper.
"Come Home and Stay Home!" Commentary: This week, I have deep-dived into the analog world, out among people, where journalism thrives and stories are made. Mixing artists with other Northern Norwegian voices has become a pre-summer tradition for High North News.
Please Remain Seated Until the Seat Belt Sign Has Been Turned Off (Commentary) Creating a newspaper in which the Arctic and the High North are the coverage areas is a privilege, a demanding privilege. Our journalistic task is to provide you, the reader, with insight and knowledge about a sparsely populated part of the world, which simultaneously plays a leading part in the international arena.
Barents Press International Stops all Cooperation With Russia The situation in Russia has destroyed all possibilities for safe and open cooperation between Nordic members of Barents Press and their Russian colleagues, reports Barents Press International.
"The West has Been Too Naive in their Relationship with Russia" The West has been too naive in their relationship with Russia and have not realized that what followed the fall of the wall was an exception as far as Russia was concerned, say a group of Norwegian editors. They are now working on keeping channels of knowledge and information open towards the new iron curtain.
In the Shadow of War: Russian Journalists are Threatened with 15 Years in Prison for Writing about the War Joensuu, Finland: Last weekend, a series of Russian journalists participated at an international journalist conference in Finland. According to Amund Trellevik, former leader of Barents Press International, creating such a meeting has been very hard. “Of course they took a big risk in coming here”, he says. Watch the whole interview here.
In the Shadow of War: He had to Flee Russia To Do His Job Joensuu, Finland: Alexey Kuvalyov is one out of 150 Russian journalists who have had to flee Russia in order to avoid harsh prison sentences for their journalism. Now, he is doing the same for the Meduza newspaper from Riga, Latvia, where his newspaper a.o. has revealed how Russian soldiers rape and kill civilians in Ukraine. We met him in Finland. Watch the entire interview here.
Astri Edvardsen to High North News Political scientist, Russia expert, and Tromsø native Astri Edvardsen (31) is the new journalist at High North News and started her new job in January. “With Astri onboard, we strengthen our editorial High North competence”, says Editor-in-Chief Arne O. Holm about Edvarsdsen, whose background also includes journalism.
Siri Gulliksen Tømmerbakke and Amund Trellevik to High North News Siri Gulliksen Tømmerbakke and Amund Trellevik recently signed on as (respectively) News Editor and journalist at High North News. Gulliksen Tømmerbakke leaves her job at Avisa Nordland newspaper, whereas Trellevik comes from NRK Finnmark, the Finnmark district office of the Norwegian national broadcaster.
