Congrats to Washington Post for winning four and New York Times for taking home three Pulitzer Prizes (the Oscar of journalism) for work in 2009. But an extra big congrats to online, nonprofit news organization ProPublica who won the prestigious award in print journalism.
Reading ProPublica - and reading about the publication - makes me happy. It presents itself as "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with moral force."
According to ProPublica investigative journalism is at risk and seen as a luxury in many newsrooms. But they state that it is fine to steal their stories, as long as you credit and link to ProPublica :)
The newsroom is led by Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. The managing editor is Stephen Engelberg, former investigative editor of The New York Times. You go!
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded from the Journalism school at my old and very beautiful university Columbia in New York.
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- on joy and creating a better world
A tribute to happiness, passion, great ideas and joy
In a world shadowed by climate change, wars, economic downturns, terrorism and racism it´s important to acknowledge life´s pure moments - the ones that click and fill us with joy, inspiration or happiness. In the end they will make the world better.
The moments can be simple (like the laughter of a child) or complex (like getting a new climate treaty in place) or delicate (like a croissant in Paris) or purely aesthetic (like artist Smadar Dreyfus exhibition at Magasin 3 in Stockholm) or filled with inner peace (like a beautiful yoga class). This blog is a tribute to them.
The moments can be simple (like the laughter of a child) or complex (like getting a new climate treaty in place) or delicate (like a croissant in Paris) or purely aesthetic (like artist Smadar Dreyfus exhibition at Magasin 3 in Stockholm) or filled with inner peace (like a beautiful yoga class). This blog is a tribute to them.
About Me
- Tina Magnergård Bjers
- Mom, wife, myself and journalist. Passionate about my kids, A, strong stories, pomegranate juice, the process of writing, international politics, breaking news, design, shopping, the future, the smell of newspapers, white flowers, glossy magazines, forwardbending yoga postures and living sustainable. Reporter at Swedens National News Agency TT, currently on maternity leave with our third daughter Zoe. Covered the US presidential election 2008, was UN correspondent 2003 and did a fellowship in innovation journalism at Stanford university 2007. Always keeps a foot in New York.
The name Bubble and Faith
It was a project I started with my dear friends Maria and Helena in Stockholm, Sweden. We wanted to create an online shop for fashion- and design-interested mothers like ourselves. In the end we decided to focus on other things but I love the name Bubble (representing that sparkling feeling you want to have in life) and Faith (what everything is actually based on).