Finnish journalist based in Helsinki. Just moved back to Finland from Oxford, where I wrote my book about the future of my trade. Stop the Press! Tales from the era of new journalism is published in Finnish by Teos at the end of September 2011. The Finnish title is Painokoneet seis! Kertomuksia uuden journalismin ajasta.
Obsessions: quality journalism & quality democracy, literature, music and comics.
Literary editor for the Finnish daily newspaper Aamulehti since 2003 until June 2011. (Still working on a blog post about why I quit my job.)
If you’re interested in quality journalism, download my paper ‘What Is Quality Journalism and How It Can Be Saved”. This is the research paper I did as a Journalist Fellow in the academic year 2009–2010 for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University. I stayed at the institute for a second academic year as a Visiting Fellow, doing research about investigative journalism in the digital era.
Here’s some music I like to play.
You can hire me to write a good story, give a talk about journalism or consult your newspaper company.
Contact: painokoneetseis(ät)gmail.com
Found you! (And your “music” link doesn’t work, to my disappointment. You’ve put an additional http:// in the address.)
Thanks Mike – should be fixed now. (It’s a link to a Spotify list of some tunes I played when I last had a disco night at Pub Huurupiilo, Tampere.)