Norway
Line Scheistrøen
Editor-in-chife with a heart for labour market journalism, the Nordic region and the world beyond.
I am a trained journalist and worked in local media in Narvik, Northern Norway, for many years before moving south. I was employed by LO Media from 2003 to 2019, where I mainly wrote for the LO-Aktuelt magazine. I also co-authored the book “Folkets Hus” with my colleague Sissel M. Rasmussen.
After spending some years as a trade union person at the Norwegian Union of Journalists, I began missing journalism too much and here I am, back as a freelancer.
When I am not working, you will find me in the forest, in the mountains and on the water – running or walking with or without the husky dog and the family. I try to live up to the motto “Life is best outdoors”.
Tel: +47 950 33 440
skriveline@gmail.com
Björn Lindahl, journalist in Oslo
“I have been the correspondent for various Nordic media in Oslo, Norway since 1981 – first for Dagens Nyheter, later for TV4, Göteborgs-Posten, Politiken and Svenska Dagbladet. I have also been a columnist for Finnish media. I have finally come to the conclusion that I have not only moved to Norway, but that I have emigrated there. I have been a freelance journalist for the Nordic Labour Journal since 2001, part time staff since 2009 and I took over as Editor-in-Chief in July 2019 until 31 December 2024.”
Telephone:
+ 47 92417828
Expert on labour law
Kerstin Ahlberg, editor for EU & arbetsrätt, published by the Institute for Social Private Law at Stockholm University.
”I have been writing about labour market issues throughout my career. I have also always been a keen “Nordist” both professionally and privately. It all started in 1970 at the Arbetsmiljö magazine which had exchanges with sister publications in the other Nordic countries. I moved to the Lag & Avtal magazine in the 80s and started writing about what EC membership might mean to labour law. In 1997 I was asked whether I would like to set up a Nordic newsletter focusing on the relationship between EU rules and politics on the one hand and the Nordic countries’ national labour law on the other. I said yes, and this year that newsletter celebrates 25 years. I am a geek when it comes to these things, but I do, of course, have a life outside of this – where I devour belles-lettres and revel in languages.”
Telephone: +46 (0)8 16 32 86
Kerstin.Ahlberg@juridicum.su.se
Denmark
Marie Preisler
“Freelance news journalist with a background from the Danish news agency Rizau. I write about complex issues in a precise and clear manner, especially about labour market issues and about how children and young people can get a good education and become masters over their own lives. I am also a trained psychotherapist and work with preventing stress among young people and within families. Private passions: I love open sea swimming and I am writing on the big, Nordic contemporary novel.”
Telephone: +45 26717780
Finland
Bengt Östling
“I have a long-standing interest in the Nordic region and Nordic society. I have been a radio and TV reporter at Yleisradio in Helsinki, a correspondent in the USA, and before that Nordic correspondent in Stockholm. I have also worked as an information officer at the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Secretariat in Copenhagen and for the Government of Åland in Mariehamn. Now a freelance journalist, I write about culture and society, security policy, work, the environment, travel, and leisure.”
bengt.i.ostling@gmail.com
twitter.com/bengtostling
Iceland
Hallgrímur Indriðason
“I am a reporter on the foreign desk of Iceland’s national broadcaster RUV, where I specialise in Nordic issues. I have been a journalist since 1997, except for one year when I worked for the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania. My main interests are sport and music.
hallgrimur.indridason@ruv.is
Reporting from Trondheim:
Bjørn Lønnum Andreasen
bjorn@frilans-andreassen.no
Sweden
Gunhild Wallin
“As a young journalist, I spent some years in Oslo in the 1980s. That turned into a life-long passion for Norway, which has grown to include all of the Nordic countries over the past 20 years that I have been working with the Nordic Labour Journal. I have mainly written about labour market and working life issues, ethics and elderly care. I have been a reporter and Editor-in-Chief, and I have also co-authored several books covering these issues. In later years I have also written texts for exhibitions. Learning new things, understating how things are linked and explaining things in understandable language is what drives me. I enjoy telling stories that are a bit outside of the media spotlight.”
Telephone: +46 708 138792
gunhild.wallin@gmail.com
Faroe islands
Rólant Waag Dam
rwd@kvf.f
Åland
Helena Forsgård
helena@vikan.ax
Translation from Scandinavian to English
Journalist Lars Bevanger
“I am a freelance radio, online and print journalist and also translate between the Scandinavian languages and English. I have experience from the BBC World Service, BBC News and NRK, and also work for other international media. My current home is in Manchester, England, and I cover anything from politics to climate and culture – both in the UK and in Norway. Most of my spare time is spent running in the Peak District.”
Telephone: +44 74111 99518.
e-mail: lbevanger@gmail.com
