Hanging out in Helsingborg
“Gräv 2005″, the seminar of Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors is over! It feels a little empty… It has been three days of excellent networking opportunities 
and energizing lectures of peers/collegues who have done outstanding work.
Today, for example, I listened to a presentation by a Swedish freelance photographer who for ten years has documented the terrible life conditions for heroine addicts in Sankt Petersburg. Very inspiring to hear about a dedicated journalist who sticks to her topic for so long. She publishes her work not primarily in Swedish magazines, as most other travelling Swedish journalists would, but in exhibitions for school kids in Russia, so that she can actually make a difference as of prevention and awareness.
Narkotika i Ryssland/Fotograf Maria Söderberg
Other inspirational people presented their investigations of corrupted union leaders
DN - Ekonomi - Granskning av LO gav grävpris
what it is like to work as a journalist in China
Kontinent - Reportagebyrå med inriktning på internationella nyheter
and on exposing Sweden’s role in the USA’s habit of “extraordinary rendition” (see www.tv4.se and click on Kalla fakta). And then there was Seymour Hersh - the American journalist who recently published Chain of Command (and whom I interviewed in Washington DC for Swedish Journalisten in February).
Now - over to the bistro of the seminar local for some mussels and white wine plus view of the Öresund (and the Danish coast)!
Gunilla
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Comment by testanchor275 — Saturday, October, 15, 2005 @ 20:51:pm