When someone asks what I do, I always say I'm a journalist. But I mean reporter.
My professional identity is that of a reporter. I go out into the world and bring some of it back with me.
[Reportage; from french, re + portage = back + carrying.]
As a reporter I mainly work for print and on-line media. However, on rare occasions I have done radio and TV documentaries.
Much of my reporting has been on democracy building in developing countries. Otherwise, I have reported environment, innovation, social problems, integration, education and learning. It has been a learning process for me personally throughout.
I mostly write in Danish, my mother tongue. A few pieces have been translated into English. One of them is the prize winning feature “Follow your own ideas” (The European “YEER Journalist Award” 1997 from the German Jugend Forscht and Deutsche Bank).
Professionally I am member of
Games – Gambia Media Support, chairman
Danish Investigative Reporters, FUJ
The Danish Union of Journalists, Freelance Group
International Media Support (IMS)
Nairobiklubben (association of development Danish communicators)
Books, books, books..
Oprør fra hjertet
Rebellion from the Heart.
An interview book with bishop Kjeld Holm og professor Steen Hildebrandt – about faiths, hope and action.
Forbrydelse uden straf
I have published two collections of articles on human rights in Kenya and impunity in Guatemala. I also did a TV documentary on grass root democracy in Uganda.
Turen går til Mentorland
Made a book on mentorship together with ph.d. Lars Holmboe (2010). I also teach mentorship.
Man er vel Hardbo…
I wrote 100 Hardic tales from West Jutland (2004)
The book contains 100 stories about my own family's history from 1400-1950 - all of which came from this area in Denmark.
Verden på tilbud
Co-author and project leader on an analysis of the mainstream news media’s foreign coverage, “Verden på tilbud”,
Forlaget Ajour 2000.
Guide til undersøgende journalister
“Journalistic legwork that tumbled a president – A case study and guide for investigative journalists” This handbook on how Filipino journalists uncovered the corruption of President Joseph Estrada was published by World Bank’s Economic Development Institute, 2001. Later it was translated and published by The Press Institute of Mongolia.