“Welcome to Yle, I am Miss World!” That is how we were greeted at Yleisradio Oy, Finland’s national public-broadcasting company. Miss World is called Elina Ravantti in real life. The nickname derives from her position as Head of World News and Current Affairs at Yle, where she oversees the production of 220 radio and TV news bulletins per day. Her editors work in Finnish, Swedish, Sami, English, ...
Author: Eva Schulz
Eva is a 26-year-old German journalist. She attended the Foreign Correspondents’ Programme in 2013. She has a strong presence in the social media. In 2013 she reported from Finland via her blog and Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts. Now she would like to take a step further and report live, via Snapchat and Periscope. She works as social media consultant and lecturer at Deutscher Journalistenschule, Hamburg Media School, Telekom, Allianz et al. Eva has strong experience in front of TV cameras as a host of a TV show for young adults, and she has been working a lot with video material in her blog. Schulz won an Young Journalist Award in 2014 and has been nominated for best online reporting in the “Deutscher Reporterpreis” competition. She is enthusiastic about questions regarding EU, Europe and the refugee situation from the Finnish perspective. She is also interested in Arctic policies and Helsinki’s plan to become a car-free city by 2015.
“The Foreign Correspondents’ Programme sparked off my wanderlust. I have been to four continents and many different countries since then, but I honestly feel a particular warmth and sense of home when I think of Finland.”
How European is Finland today?
The FCP was one of the most exciting journeys and one of the best journalist programmes I got to take part in. I learned so much, it felt like a whole Bachelor’s degree in “Finland Studies” crammed into just one summer. One of the most important things I realized during that time was how passionate I am about Europe.
It was the many conversations with the other participants from all over the ...