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<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12"> <tr> <td><font color="#000000"> <h3>My journalism</h3> This is some of what I work with: <ul> <li>News on Current Affairs<br /> </li> <li> News Interviews and Profiles</li> <li> News Feature Stories/Photo Journalism<br /> </li> <li>Articles on Human Rights and Human Rights Abuses<br /> </li> <li>Investigative Journalism</li> <li>Pieces in English</li> <li>Culture/Arts Feature</li> <li>Food Columns and Lifestyle Stories</li> <li>Radio</li> <li>Other genres </li> </ul> Please scroll down for more information, samples, and links.<br /> <br /> <h4><strong>News on Current Affairs</strong></h4> <p> </p> <img class="image-right" src="/users/GunillaKinn2867/images/GunillaKinn2867156052T.jpg" alt="HotellOloffson:PaoloPellegrin: Thumb" />I report breaking news as well as find my own. As a news reporter, I have covered events as different as the immigration demonstrations in the United States during 2006, the Hurricane Rita evacuation of Houston in 2005, the presidential election in the United States 2004, and the demonstrations against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti in 2003.<br /> When the September 11-attacks struck New York in 2001, I went down to lower Manhattan and reported for Svenska Dagbladet. (Later I wrote <a href="http://www.tidningenbarn.se/zino.aspx?articleID=970" target="_top">this piece</a> for Swedish Save the Children.) <br /> Because most of my news stories are commissioned of and wired by <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">TT</a>, the Swedish National News Agency, for which I have worked as a New York stringer since 2003, they reach <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> Swedish news rooms and get published in most papers and web sites in Sweden.<br /> In October 2005, I published news – via TT – that several Swedish companies were scrutinized for their involvement in the Oil for Food-program. The news dominated Swedish media completely for two days. (You can read some of my texts <a href="http://gunillakinn.blogsome.com/2005/10/27/hot-news-fran-harlem-fler-svenska-foretag-pekas-ut-i-irak-mutharvan/" target="_top">here</a> and <a href="http://gunillakinn.blogsome.com/2005/10/27/och-har-kommer-siffrorna/" target="_top">here</a>, and <a href="http://di.se/Nyheter/?page=%2fAvdelningar%2fArtikel.aspx%3fO%3dIndex%26ArticleId%3d2005%5c10%5c28%5c162782" target="_top">here</a> is one example on how it was followed up.) <br /> <strong><br /> </strong> <h4><strong>News Interviews and Profiles</strong> </h4> I love interviewing interesting people, whether they are politicians, or public intellectuals/culture types like these interviewees or something completely different. <ul> <li><strong>Jan Eliasson</strong>, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs/UN General Assembly President [tear-sheet/PDF from <strong>Fokus</strong> April 2006, will be posted later)</li> <li><strong>Fredrik Reinfeldt</strong>, Sweden's opposition leader, six months before he was elected Prime Minister [tear-sheet/PDF from Civilekonomen March 2006 to be posted later; <a href="http://www.civilekonomerna.se/portal/page?_pageid=54,4304355&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL">here's the web version</a><a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">].</a></li> <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top"> </a> <li><a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top"><strong>Seymour Hersh</strong>, American investigative reporter [</a><a href="/users/GunillaKinn2867/docs/Seymour%20Hersh,%20Journalisten.pdf" target="_top">please click here for a tear-sheet a reportage from Journalisten April 2005; </a><a href="users/GunillaKinn2867/docs/Seymour%20Hersh,%20Journalisten.pdf" target="_top">note that this is the only PDF file available on this site so far</a><a href="/users/GunillaKinn2867/docs/Seymour%20Hersh,%20Journalisten.pdf" target="_top">!]</a></li> <li><strong>Sigrid Kahle</strong>, Swedish writer and Orientalist [tear-sheet from Arbetaren September 2003, will be posted]</li> <li><strong>Pramoedya Ananta Toer</strong>, Indonesian writer [online <a href="http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/GK_Pramoedya.htm">here</a>; text was originally published in Svenska Dagbladet Kultur, with my pictures /not online/]<br /> </li> </ul> <strong></strong> <h4><strong>News Feature Stories/Photo Journalism</strong> </h4> This is my favourite genre: reportages on current affairs, human rights, politics, and life style trends. <br /> The last few years, I have been doing many stories on people in the midst of the big stories of our time, such as the balance between terrorism prevention and human rights, climate changes, the aids crisis, urbanization, and migration. <br /> I sometimes travel with excellent photographers; sometimes I take pictures myself such as for most of the stories listed below. On... <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>... the global warming debate in Greenland, the USA, and the rest of the world, <a href="http://www.fokus.se">Fokus</a> September 2006 [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... the Ned Lamont campaign in Connecticut, <a href="http://www.fokus.se">Fokus</a> August 2006 [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... Greenland fishermen fearing global warming, <a href="http://miljoaktuellt.se/index.shtml" target="_top">Miljöaktuellt</a> May 2006 [PDF file to come] </li> <li>... children evacuated from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tidningen BARN November 2005; online story <a href="http://www.tidningenbarn.se/zino.aspx?articleID=5501" target="_top">here</a>. [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... post-conflict Guatemala, Göteborgsposten February 2003 [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... the 2001 referendum in East Timor, Amnesty Press #3/2001 (cover photo); online version <a href="http://www2.amnesty.se/ap.nsf/reportage/0A089742AA804E54C1256AE800223318?opendocument" target="_top">here</a>.</li> <li>... schools for migrant children in Beijing, Metro August 2000 (cover photo). [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... night life in Beijing, RES 2001 [PDF file to come] </li> <li>... the Indy 500 come back of racing star Kenny Bräck, <a href="http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=420906" target="_top">DN Sport photo May 2005 here</a>; text <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">here.</a></li> <li>... interns at the United Nations: Veckorevyn April 2006 [PDF file to come]</li> <li>... the abstinence movement in the USA: <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">Svenska Dagbladet Idag August 2004</a></li> </ul> <h4>Articles on Human Rights and Human Rights Abuses</h4> <p>I have a Master's Degree in International Affairs with a concentration on Human Rights, obtained in 2002 at the <a style="" target="_top" href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights">Center for the Study of Human Rights</a> at <a style="" target="_top" href="www.sipa.columbia.edu">School of International and Public Affairs</a> at <a style="" target="_top" href="www.columbia.edu">Columbia University</a> in New York.<br /> This means I have a thorough background on human rights law, international law, and humanitarian law. It also implies knowledge on human rights in relation to transitional justice, development issues, migration, globalization, and business. <br /> I have good contacts within the human rights communities in New York, and often attend workshops and seminars on human rights to keep with news in the field as well as with emerging concepts. For example, in the summer of 2005 I was a participant in <a style="" target="_top" href="http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/Museum/2005/eriksen_salemink.html">a post-graduate course on human security</a> at Oslo University Summer School.<br /> I have reported on many human rights issues on the ground, for example in the United States, China, Yemen, West Papua, East Timor, Guatemala, Brazil, and Haiti. I also follow human rights issues within the United Nations framework, for example the new Human Rights Council. <br /> I often get to write about human rights news for TT, and I am a frequent contributor of human rights articles to the <a style="" target="_top" href="http://www2.amnesty.se/ap.nsf">Amnesty Press</a> and Barn (membership magazines for Swedish Amnesty International and Swedish Save the Children). One example is <a style="" target="_top" href="http://www2.amnesty.se/ap.nsf/reportage/42955C0B1F18C5BDC1256B30003E8A90?opendocument">this report on human rights abuses in West Papua</a>. Also, see "news feature stories" above.<br /> </p> <h4><strong>Investigative Journalism</strong></h4> <div>Good journalism is when the reporter uses a magnifying glass rather than just a mirror, my teachers in investigative journalism at the School of Journalism used to say. They are so right.</div> <div> My school project group's stories on escort service and prostitution via Internet were published as first-page news in Aftonbladet. I have also done research for TV4 Swedish Channel Four investigative programme Kalla fakta, and for the Swedish business monthly Månadens Affärer. </div> <ul> <li>Escort service, Aftonbladet June 1996 [one of the stories will be posted as a PDF file here]<br /> </li> <li> Swedish woman in Los Angeles prison, Expressen March 2005 [ditto]<br /> </li> </ul> Also, I am a member of <a href="www.fgj.se" target="_top">Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> and have taken part in several of their seminars, once as a moderator. <strong><br /> <br /> </strong> <h4><strong>Pieces in English</strong></h4> Most of my texts are in Swedish, but I have also had a lot of texts published in English (written by me in English, or translated). On...<br /> <ul> <li>... how the tsunami struck Sweden: South China Morning Post, January 2005 [sample will be posted if I get hold of it...]</li> <li>... hanging out in Beirut: Dutch, April 1999 [a scanned version of the story to be posted]</li> <li>... events in Stockholm – contributing editor for <a href="http://www.sasmedia.se/Article.jsp?article=5222&category=7&x=0&y=2">Scanorama</a> 1997–2000</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Culture and Arts Feature</strong> <br /> </h4> <p>I have written extensively on contemporary art, architecture, design, urban planning, music, and other stories related to the arts, particularly for the arts department of <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">Svenska Dagbladet</a>, but also for many other Swedish papers and magazines.<br /> These examples that will be posted here shortly are all about contemporary culture in China, a country I have visited no less than six times.<br /> </p> <ul> <li> ... Chinese Contemporary Art, 1999 [sample to come, from Svenska Dagbladet]</li> <li>... the Ikea store in Beijing, 1999 [ditto]</li> <li>... Beijing punk kids, 1999 [ditto]<br /> </li> </ul> <h4><strong>Food columns and restaurant guides</strong> </h4> I am a columnist in what is widely regarded as the world's best foodie magazine, Swedish <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">Gourmet</a>. <br /> In addition to bi-monthly columns and reportages on food trends, I have written restaurant guides from all over the world so far from the following cities, in chronological order: Beirut, Beijing, Jakarta, New Orleans, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Hamburg, Belgrade, Boston, Washington DC, Nuuk/Ilulissat (Greenland) and New York.<br /> I have also had stories published in food sections of Swedish news papers (see example <a href="http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_9179573.asp">here</a>) and several lifestyle magazines. <em><br /> <br /> PDF samples to be posted </em>(or available upon request): <ul> <li>What's Cooking? Boston </li> <li>On American food philantrophy </li> <li>On why gourmets should live in Harlem</li> <li>On gourmet groupies and chefs with sex appeal</li> <li>On New Orleans as a necropolis/gastropolis<br /> </li> </ul> <h4><strong> Radio</strong> </h4> My very first radio piece was broadcast in 1996, a 10 minute-long portrait of the German Church in the Old Town of Stockholm with all of its sounds. <br /> Since then, I have produced news and news feature stories for a variety of Swedish Radio (SR) programmes as a freelance contributor, and also worked as a staff reporter at the SR's foreign news desk, <a href="http://www.sr.se/ekot" target="_top">Ekot</a>. (SR = Sweden's public service radio broadcaster, see presentation in English <a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?ProgramID=2438">here</a>.)<br /> Several times, I have participated as a studio guest, panelist or commentator for SR's news programmes, such as <a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/P1/program/index.asp?ProgramID=1637">Studio Ett</a>, <a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/program/index.asp?programID=1650">P1 Morgon</a> and P3's Flipper. In addition, I have done short breaking news reports for <a href="http://www.tt.se/utbud/redradio.asp" target="_top">TT Radio</a>. <br /> <a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/program/arkiv.asp?ProgramID=1637&formatID=116&Max=2006-05-26&Min=2004-04-01&PeriodStart=2006-02-01&Period=3&Artikel=795672" target="_top"> </a> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/program/arkiv.asp?ProgramID=1637&formatID=116&Max=2007-02-01&Min=2004-04-01&PeriodStart=2006-09-01&Period=3&Artikel=936271">Panelist in SR's New York studio, September 11 2006; Studio Ett<br /> </a></li> <li><a href="javascript:void(0);/*1170376527164*/"> On air from Haiti, February 14 2006: Studio Ett</a></li> <li> On the cultural salons of Harlem, New York SR P1 Kulturfredag, June 2005 [MP3 file to be uploaded] </li> <li> On air from the Election Victory Party of GOP, Washington November 2, 2004: TT Radio [MP3 file to be uploaded]</li> </ul> For longer sound pieces, I now record and edit digitally (in ProTools). <strong><br /> <br /> </strong> <h4><strong>Other Genres<img class="image-right" src="/users/GunillaKinn2867/images/GunillaKinn2867159337.jpg" alt="okamen: Image" /> </strong></h4> <ul> <li><em>Book</em> <em>cover</em>: I took pictures for Nina Solomin's praised book <a href="http://www.tt.se/utl/eng.asp" target="_top">OK, Amen</a>, including the cover photo. It was designed by Sweden's best known book designer, <a style="" target="_top" href="http://www.lottakuhlhorn.se/contact.php">Lotta Kühlhorn</a>. (Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 2001) <br /> </li> <li><em>Book editing:</em> I edited seven chapters of texts by various writers for a book on Swedish design and architecture for the Chinese market (1999). </li> <li><em>CD-ROM</em>: I wrote the texts for <a href="http://wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/streetcred.html?pg=12" target="_top">Reternity</a>, a new take on modern design history (by Futurniture, 1999).</li> </ul></font></td> </tr> </table>
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