Jorn Madslien

Jorn Madslien (Jørn Madslien) is a journalist for BBC News Online. Prior to joining the BBC in 2000, Jorn founded and ran the television production company The Media Syndicate, making current affairs documentaries on behalf of broadcasters in many countries.

Among his productions are films about the sub-culture producing Neo-Nazi White Power music in Sweden, the challenges facing the indigenous Sami people in the High North region and Russian prostitutes working across the border in Northern Norway during the 1990s.

Also during the 1990s, Jorn worked as a television reporter/presenter for European Business News, a Dow Jones, TV-channel that was later merged with CNBC Europe. Jorn has also written for the financial press in London and New York, including publications by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and he is a contributing editor of books on financial derivatives.

Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds. He holds a masters degree in international journalism from City University, London.

External links

* [http://skup.exss.no/wefg23/pages/?clipid=7&sid=18 Jorn Madslien speaking at SKUP, the Norwegian investigative journalism conference: Subject: follow the money. In Norwegian.]
* [http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/estates/consumers.pdf EU car firms fail consumers' green test,Jorn Madslien University of Glasgow]
* [http://www.journalisted.com/search?q=india&j=jorn-madslien Journalisted, lists recent articles by Jorn Madslien]
* [http://www.ascwa.com/art250707.pdf Russia's Sami fight for their lives, Jorn Madslien recited by the Aboriginal Sports Circle of the Western Arctic]
* [http://www.bjoya.org/shortlist.vc 2007 Business Journalist of the Year Shortlist]
* [http://kosmograd.typepad.com/kosmograd/2007/08/the-gorgeous-ga.html Kosmograd on Jorn Madslien's photo essay Murmansk's Gorgeous Garages]
* [http://fervidus.typepad.com/lingual_tremors/local_color/index.html Lingual X blog on Jorn Madslien's photo essay Murmansk's Gorgeous Garages]
* [http://moneymakers604-eek.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html Money Maker on Jorn Madslien's first drive of a BMW hydrogen car.]
* [http://www.partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/Projects%20and%20Publications/News/Nuclear%20News/2006/10202006101729AM.html Partnership for Global Security, reference to Jorn Madslien's reporting on nuclear waste]