Going on

 

• Full speed ahead» This year has been full of writing on topics such as local

restaurants, personalities, art, gardening and local heroes. Think global, act local!

 

• Latest published article in English » From here to Returnity -  

On Cradle to Cradle.

 

• Radiotalk»  Thankyou listeners - especially Bernie, who writes he laughed to the extent of stomach-ache from listening. I will be back on air - don´t know where, don´t know when...

 

 

 

Welcome to my website! I am a Swedish freelancing journalist specializing in workinglife, business and IT.

 

Most of the time I write for papers, websites and newsletters. Other tasks include compiling reports and doing research. I have also written a book, done some radiotalk and help organizations out with editorial communication.

 

Articles in English:

 

On Ethanol and the Swedish "environmental car".

 

On Design - interview with Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivosto Rune

 

Mattias Edwall and Cirkus Cirkör

 

Cradle to Cradle - the movement, the concept, the people

 

Acaiberries in the Amazon - can a berry save the rainforest? (Also all photos)

 


As the rest of my site is in Swedish, here follows a short summary of some of my assignments ( a list of clients is submitted under tab "Kunder") :


 

Brief description 

 

  • The deregulation of Swedish drugmarket monopoly Apoteket - national and international enterprises investigating the market (feature of 4 pages in daily GöteborgsPosten)

 

  • Biometrics - what´s happening in the field in Sweden and internationally (5 pages for Swedish magazine Aktuell Säkerhet or Relevant Security)

 

  • Interview with Östen Mäkitalo ("father" of NMT, NICAM, RDS and more, frontpage, IDG´s Computer Sweden)

 

  • Security in WLAN:s (facts, interviews 2 pages for Swedish magazine Aktuell Säkerhet (Relevant Security)

 

  • Interview with Professor Tony Allan, winner of the Stockholm Water Prize 2008

 

 

  • Sleepiness behind the wheel lethal hazard (same as above)

 

  • Single working mother (interview plus photos for the same website)

 

  • Working enviroment in day-care for children (dito)

 

  • New rules (EU) for working-schedules (dito)

 

  • Interviews with immigrants (who earn less and don´t get access to rights to which they are entitled within working life) (dito)

 

  • Threats and violence within working enviroments (website Arbetsmiljöupplysningen)
  • How to get value for "friskvårdspengen" (a benefit for employers who see to the health of workers)

 

  • Webeditor (news) for IDG Magazine Internetworld

 

  • Open Source - better security for less money (2 pages for magazine Relevant Security)

 

  • Open Source as an international phenomena (IDG Magazine Computer Sweden)

 

  • Interviews My SQL (Computer Sweden)

 

  • IT-departements on migration to Open Source (also Computer Sweden)

 

  • Administration of resources and know-how within mobile systems (Computer Sweden)

 

  • Wireless transmissions of security alarms and surveillance services (Relevant Security)

 

  • Mobile Telephone policies for a) big businesses b) small businesses

 

  • Bookkeeping over the internet (newsletter)

 

  • Research in Health Care

 

  • About our health- the marketing war on drugs (6 pages for magazine Komet)

 

  • Networking (magazine Inizio, 4 pages)

 

  • All-time-high for book-selling - the business and the marketing (4 pages for mag Komet)

 

 

More:

 

I´ve got grades from Stockholm University in Business Economics, Political Sciences and Journalism.

Other subjects I´ve studied are Physics and Astronomy (Fysikum Alba Nova) and Arabic (Departement of Oriental Languages at Stockholm University).

My essay in Journalism was a historic overview of discourses within Swedish press refering to women over time. In relation to the essay I  helped out on a research project by encoding a corpus at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass-Communication (JMK) at StockholmUniversity.


 

During the latter part of the 90´s I worked as a webeditor and project-leader for various companies and organizations - amongst those the Swedish Board for Tourism and the Swedish Union of Journalists.

 

In 2003 I started freelancing and contributed with research for a film - From the Beginning to the End -  about Iraq from 6 000 B C up til first Gulf War in 2003 by independent film-maker Maj Wechselmann.


I´ve been interviewed a number of times - on Swedish television, on local radio and in Swedish press (dailies and mags) on various topics.

 

I started out in the 80´s writing about trends and popular culture. My roots are in commercial press such as women´s glossies. Here is a pdf about me and my life before IT happened (unfortunately it´s in Swedish, but you might enjoy looking at the pictures!)

 

 

 

 

Susanna Kumlien e-mail: info@kumlien.net Phone: +46-761-05 60 35.