New Constructive Fellows Appointed

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Thomas Stokholm has for more than 25 years produced and directed TV documentaries primarily focusing on investigative programs and often true crime. He has been nominated multiple times for the Cavling Award and received the award in 2004. He co-founded and co-led Bastard Film and has also had a long career as an editorial and creative leader at companies such as Monday Media, Ekstra Bladet, and Heartbeats. Over the past five years, he has worked freelance as a podcast producer and host, freelance TV producer, advisor, and author.

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Eva Højrup has held a range of positions in journalism and management within the Danish media industry. Her workplaces have often been DR and TV2, with detours to the print press and magazines. For the past four years, she has been responsible for the health content at TV2 EAST, the regional tv-station covering 12 municipalities in the Zealand region. Her job as a specialist reporter has provided her with an extensive network of sources, and knowledge about the conditions in a healthcare system, where there is a shortage of staff on all fronts. Her stories deal with people and social inequality and how we can attempt to think creatively and solve problems.

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Nanna Malou Rasmussen is employed as social media editor of TV2 Nord. Earlier, she was the local reporter of Aalborg, supplying TV2 Nord with news reports from her municipality. Operating as video journalist in this, she has shaped her own news reports from idea to publication – and digital versioning. Nanna graduated as a journalist from University of Southern Denmark. Before TV2 Nord she worked as a journalist in another regional news media house.

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Jamilla Sophie Alvi is a feature writer at Jyllands-Posten. She has served as an “editorial change agent” for various media organizations and has been crafting thought-provoking stories since 2000. At the heart of her journalism lies nuanced storytelling that aims to challenge and expand the perspectives of readers, stimulate public discourse, and provide entertainment simultaneously. During her tenure as the head of communications at the patient organization Muskelsvindfonden, she found inspiration to narrate case stories in an empowering manner. As an editor for digital projects and investigative journalism at the regional TV station TVOJ, she and her team earned accolades for their excellence in digital storytelling. In her journalistic endeavors, she strives to transcend the commonly used binary narratives of victimhood.

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Thomas Buhl is a political journalist at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, where he is co-hosting DR’s political podcast “Slotsholmen”. The mission of the podcast is to give insight into Danish politics and the political engine room through interviews with key political figures, advisors, experts, analysts, and other main actors on the political scene. Thomas has also covered elections, breaking news events, party conventions, and daily politics, communicated both through features for national radio and TV and as a live reporter. Previously, Thomas has worked as a news reporter at “Radioavisen”, made features for “Orientering” at P1, and produced regional journalism as a reporter and news host at DR’s regional station in Northern Jutland.

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Ida Skytte is a journalism lecturer at The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus. In the recent years she has been the academic coordinator of the diploma program for specialized journalism and she has conducted research on how pay walls have impacted news journalism and how user needs have entered Danish news rooms. Before teaching journalism, Ida worked as a political journalist at e.g. Kristeligt Dagblad and Altinget and as a press advisor at the former prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussens office in the European Parliament and as a science journalist at Health, Aarhus University.

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For the past eight years Marie has worked as a project manager at Politiken Live creating debates, talks, award shows and courses. She has been in charge of projects such as Politikens Undervisningspris, Ibyen Prisen and Politikens Kunstkritikerskole. Additionally, Marie writes columns about tv and radio. Before joining Politiken she was a web editor at Danwatch. Marie holds a master’s degree in analytical journalism (cand.public) from Aarhus University and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.

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Tanja Nyrup Madsen is an experienced investigative journalist and editor. She has a deep passion for journalism that leaves people more enlightened, engaged and empowered. As chief editor of Mandag Morgen she combined investigative, analytical and constructive journalism to reach this goal. Previously, she has led the Danish public radio (DR) current affairs flagship program, P1 Morgen, and served as business editor for online, tv and radio at DR, where she also led a cross boarder investigation team on global investment banks’ dividend tax fraud throughout Europe. She started her carrier at TV2 working as beat reporter and member of various investigative teams. In her early years she worked with data journalism as analytical journalist at Ugebrevet A4. Later she became the first editor and host of the investigative radio program P1-Documentary. She played an active part in creating the FUJ prize for investigative journalism and also served as chairman of the jury and vicepresident for the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism (FUJ).

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Noora Mattila currently works as a podcast producer at the Finnish Jaksomedio in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. She has formerly been a reporter at several Finnish newspapers amongst others Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Finland. She has also worked as an editor of the literature magazine Nuori Voima and during a stay the United States she was a freelancer for several Finnish news media. Noora Mattila is the author of a book about conspiracy theories and vaccine critics which she wrote after the covid 19 epidemic and she has won several Finnish journalism awards.

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Alex is Program Manager for the Graduate Diploma in Journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and the elected President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. An Associate Professor in Journalism, Alex is an active leader, educator and researcher in journalism. She began work as a journalist in the mid 1980s. Her research, teaching and practice sits at the nexus of journalism practice, journalism education, equality, diversity and mental health.

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Esben Seerup is a seasoned leader in local and regional news, with over 30 years of experience across various media platforms, including regional radio (DR Fyn), newspapers (Fyens Stiftstidende), and television (TV 2 Fyn). His career spans more than 25 years as editor, manager and CEO. From these positions he has consistently championed quality journalism – critical and constructive hand-in-hand – as a vital component of democracy.

At TV 2 Fyn, Esben led a significant transformation, crafting a strategy that positioned the media house as Denmark’s most constructive over a three-year change process. This effort involved the entire newsroom and resulted in TV 2 Fyn becoming the most trusted, most influential, and the dominant news source for the 500.000 people in the Funen region by 2024, boasting record-high viewers and digital user engagement.

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Stine Jessen Jensen has been a journalist at Fyens Stiftstidende for nearly 20 years, writing local and regional journalism for the people of Funen. For many years her primary focus has been the major welfare sectors and municipal politics in Denmark’s third-largest city, Odense. Since 2019, she has participated in Fyens Stiftstidende’s annual journalistic campaigns, all focusing on various areas of the welfare system. These journalistic initiatives have consistently aimed to give journalism a constructive and solution-oriented twist. Recently, Stine has switched to the crime desk, where she daily works to produce balanced and nuanced journalism about crime in Funen.