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Journalist at Finnish Broadcasting Co (Yle)
Freelance (Salamagundi Ltd)
The New European/The New World
Monocle
Songlines
Jazzwise
Scandinavian Review
Finnish Music Quarterly
The NYC Jazz Record
ELM Magazine
Jazz Journal
Jazz in Europe
We Jazz Magazine

Experience
The Guardian
Rolling Stone
Spin
Billboard
BBC World Service
Deutsche Welle
Sunday Times
New York Press
Baltimore City Paper
House+Gard…

Wif Stenger’s Journalist Portfolio

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Digital crooks don't take holidays: AI-powered cyberattacks on the rise

Digital crooks don't take holidays: AI-powered cyberattacks on the rise

"AI writes better Finnish than most Finns," says data security expert Mikko Hyppönen, noting that artificial …

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Monocle: Turku sprints for carbon neutrality

Monocle: Turku sprints for carbon neutrality

Finland’s former capital, Turku, aims to be one of the world’s first carbon-neutral city just three years fro…

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Resilience is taught as an employability skill in Wales

Resilience is taught as an employability skill in Wales

Resilience skills are embedded in employability courses by Adult Learning Wales. "While attending the Basic D…

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Eastern Finland's honey bears dig under electric fences to steal honey

Eastern Finland's honey bears dig under electric fences to steal honey

Beekeepers are trying to fend off growing numbers of honey burglars in North Karelia.

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With horns and black lace, metalheads gather for Helsinki's record-setting Tuska fest

With horns and black lace, metalheads gather for Helsinki's record-setting Tuska fest

Headliners at Helsinki's Tuska festival included veteran US band Megadeth, which has ties to Finland, as well…

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Soon you can book direct train trips between Finland and Sweden

Soon you can book direct train trips between Finland and Sweden

The twice-daily train service between Oulu and the Swedish town of Haparanda starts on 10 August, VR has conf…

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Digital crooks don't take holidays: AI-powered cyberattacks on the rise

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By Wif Stenger Verified
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You may be on vacation – but not so data crooks who may be scheming to attack your small business or organisation. Cyberattacks targeting Finnish victims have increased by 35 percent compared to June last year, according to a report released by the cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies on Friday. Anssi Kärkkäinen, Director General of National Cyber Security Centre Finland (NCSC-FI), is sceptical of that figure, but says that there are plenty of bad actors at work 24/7.
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With horns and black lace, metalheads gather for Helsinki's record-setting Tuska fest

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By Wif Stenger Verified
| Yle.fi Verified
Headliners at Helsinki's Tuska festival included veteran US band Megadeth, which has ties to Finland, as well as acts from Japan, Switzerland, Germany and the Nordics. Fans up front for Jyväskylä band Lost Society. Image: Jussi Mankkinen / Yle Finland has a reputation as a hotbed of heavy metal, with Helsinki’s Tuska festival the biggest annual gathering of fans.
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Soon you can book direct train trips between Finland and Sweden

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By Wif Stenger Verified
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Finland’s railway system has been essentially a walled garden, with nearly 6,000 kilometres of tracks sealed off from the outside world. That will change in early August. Tickets go on sale next Tuesday for the first Finnish cross-border train trips in more than five years – and the first to Sweden in 34 years. The direct rail link between the northern Finnish town of Tornio and its Swedish neighbour, Haparanda, will resume in August. Finnish VR trains last plied the route in 1992.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Roxy Music review for university newspaper

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Sure, and probably will again when the grid crashes.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Tintin