We are the journalists from around the Arctic Region making The Arctic Conversation.
Amy Martin
USA
Amy Martin is the founder and executive producer of Threshold, a podcast and public radio program. Each season, Threshold takes a deep dive into one story of pivotal change in the natural world. The first season of Threshold told the story of the American bison. Season two takes listeners to all eight countries of the Arctic to learn about climate change through the eyes of people who live in the polar north.
Amy’s stories have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered, PRI’s The World, Reveal, Here and Now, and other national outlets. She’s been invited to present her work at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, TEDx at the University of Montana, and at a variety of universities around the country. In 2016, she was selected for the Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Amy was raised on an Iowa farm and has lived in Missoula, Montana since 1999.
Gloria Dickie
Canada
Gloria Dickie is a freelance journalist based in Canada who reports on Arctic issues at home and abroad. She has reported on muskox farming in Alaska, the Arctic Railroad project in Norway, glacier monitors in Iceland, and polar bears in Manitoba. She has a penchant for tracking sea ice loss and works as a correspondent on the subject for Mongabay. Her written work appears in The Guardian, Canadian Geographic, National Geographic, Arctic Today, Arctic Deeply, Science News, and Huffington Post, among others.
Anna Kireeva
Russia
Anna Kireeva, Russian Arctic environmental journalist. Since 2002 till 2019 had been with Bellona environmental NGO in Murmansk. and headed Bellona's information services in Murmansk, writing news reports about environmental issues in the Arctic. As a journalist, has visited many Arctic spots in Russia and abroad. An author of at least 500articles about various Arctic issues, both local and global. Co-author and co-editor of numerous Bellona’s reports and brochures, devoted to various environmental problems of the Arctic. Since 2015 is a chairperson of Barents Press Russia.
Mari Molkoselkä
Finland
Mari Molkoselkä, I’m a Finnish journalist from Kittilä, a small town in the North of Finland. I’m taking my first steps as a journalist. I’m still a student but I have been working in the regional newspaper of Finnish Lapland, called Lapin Kansa. My main interest is in the youth and in their future. What kind of place Arctic will be when they are grownups?
Thomas Nilsen
Norway
Thomas Nilsen is editor of the Barents Observer based in Kirkenes, northern Norway. He reports on cross-border issues in the Barents Region, Russia and the Arctic. He has a long experience in media cooperation across the borders in the high north of Europe, both as radio- and newspaper reporter all the way back to the days before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Additional to the Barents Observer, his reporting appears in the Moscow Times, Arctic Today and Eye on the Arctic / Radio Canada. He has a penchant for writing about environment and security issues.
Pat Kane
Canada/indigenous/settler
Pat is a photographer in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He covers people, life and environment in Canada's Far North.
Pat takes a documentary approach to the stories impacting Northerners, with a special focus on indigenous issues and empowerment. He’s the co-founder and president of the Far North Photo Festival — a platform to help elevate the work of photographers in underrepresented parts of Northern Canada. He’s also part of the photo collectives Natives Photograph and Boreal Collective.
Pat identifies as mixed indigenous/settler and is a proud Algonquin Anishinaabe member of the Timiskaming First Nation (Quebec).
Malin Winberg
Sweden
Malin Winberg is the producer and editor for the Arctic Conversation Podcast. She is a radio journalist living i a town called Luleå in the north of Sweden. Malin has worked with both local and national productions such as news, documentaries, live shows for youth public radio and anchor for the local public radio in Norrbotten. She is currently running her own company working as a freelance.
Katarina Hällgren
Sweden/sami
Katarina Hällgren has been working as a journalist for about 25 years. First att a swedish newspaper for about five years, at the Saami magazine Samefolket and then as a planning editor at Sameradion & SVT Sápmi. Now she´s freelancer and she´s producing the Saami youth magazine Nuorat, among some other things. Katarina lives in Arvidsjaur in the northern of Sweden. Her focus as a journalist is mainly on Saami issues.