A new Era

This was my last week as comissioning editor (reportasjeleder) at Aftenposten Junior. I've been involved since the start of 2012, and now 1 1/2 years later, it is time for me to move on. It's fantastic to leave a concept that I'm proud of, which has won two prestigious prizes (Perspektivprisen from NRC and Årets Nykommer from MBL, in Bergen). The kids love it, and tell us we make the world easier to understand.

I've worked with great colleagues and have a had a great learning experience. I just hope this fantastic newspaper persists for at least 8 years - when my soon-to-be-born child is ready to read it :)

Here are a few of the recent covers of Junior. Colourful, energetic and positive! Just as the rest of the paper!

And me; I'll go on to other things. First, baby-leave, and then I do not know. Which I think is great. I love not having plans, and having the time to think things over and deciding where life leads.

Lots of love xx

Yup, we WON!!

It's been a couple of weeks since I went to off to Bergen and "mediedagene", a media conference which is in Bergen each year. Aftenposten Junior won the price "Best Newcomer", or "Årets nyskapning", which of course is pretty cool :)

Off to Bergen - hoping to collect an Award!

Aftenposten Junior has been nominated for one of the Media Awards, which are handed out in Bergen tonight. We're nominated in the category "Årets Nyskapning" / "Newcomer of the Year", and our fingers are crossed! 

Interview with Inga Marte Thorkildsen

In this week's Junior, which is out today, we're running an interview with the "child-minister" Inga Marte Thorkildsen. I brought two kids along, who carried out the interview, asking her about children's rights, bullying, etc!

Time to Move On

I've been working at Aftenposten Junior for a year now. And it's been a fantastic experience, as I got involved several months before we launched. It soon became our "baby", and therefore it's so nice to see it becoming so popular. Every week we get emails from kids who wants to be in involved in some way or another. Some write that "we make the world easier to understand". Mission accomplished, I think then :)

But I get my kick out of new challenges and projects, so this coming summer it's time for new adventures.

So if there's anyone out there with an ambition of making the BEST newspaper for children in the WORLD... I encourage you to apply :)

Aftenposten Junior - over 10 000 subscribers!

We've been going for less than 5 months, and have now reached 10 000 subscribers, as well as more than 10 000 weekly readers, who buy the paper in the shops every week. The goal was 10 000 by the end of the year, so we're pretty happy!

I'm so pleased that we manage to make a newspaper for children that they actually enjoy reading, where we're teaching them important issues such as the financial crisis, the US election, the situation in Syria, Egypt, on China, pirates in Somalia, etc etc. As well as inspiring stories about kids themselves. What's going on in their world? What inspires them?

I love working with it, and my role as reportasjeleder (don't know what that is in english, perhaps "assistant editor"?). It really enjoyable working on a project that people appreciate, do something that feels important, and hang out with kids.

Here's a few pix :)