Here are some pics of me at work and a few of my articles that have previously been published.
VG Helg, 5. mars 2016. 13 pages story from the Hard.Land project, about the fall of Detroit and the middle class – and the rise of Donald Trump.VG Helg, 5. mars 2016. 13 pages story from the Hard.Land project, about the fall of Detroit and the middle class – and the rise of Donald Trump.
VG Helg, 23. mai 2015. 14 pages from the Hard.Land prosject. About The «Black course» – the coal in West Virginia.
VG Helg, april 2015. My interview in Kiev with former Ukrainian president Viktor Jutsjenko.
Dagsavisen 21. February 2015. Orban’s Yellow Army. I visited Hungary to meet some of the 200.000 unemployed that prime minister Viktor Orban has forced out to work to get their welfare money.VG Helg, 10. October 2014. I was back at the place where the Berlin Wall first cracket: In Sopron. Hungary. Here I met the boarder guard who first opened the gate between east and west, Mr. Arpad Bella.VG, 19. April 2014. This is how the worlds most famous boxing gym – Kronk – look like today. I and photographer Espen Rasmussen visited this sad place in Detroit some weeks earlier.Feature article in VG Helg about russian weapon smuggler Viktor Bout. 4. April 2006.
Interview with President Bill Clinton, 14.04.2005. Foto: Thomas NilssonInterview with President Jimmy Carter just after the announcement of him winning the Nobel Peace Price, 11.10.2002. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.Visiting Boot Camp for youth criminals in Florida. Feature article in VG, 27.02.2005.
Export subsidies in EU are driving chicken farmers in Ghana out of business. Document in VG, 10.12.2005.
Hillary Clinton, 2005. Foto: Thomas NilssonGreat meeting with Muhammad Ali for VG in 1997. Foto: Kenneth Johansson.Meeting with President Bush advisor Karl Rove in the White House twice. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.Interviewing Eminem, 2002.
Covering the Iraq war from the U.S. 2003-20
Left: Nelly Connally was the last survivor from president John F. Kennedy’s last drive, in Dallas 1963. I met her 40 years after the assasination. Right: In Balakot, Pakistan, after the earth quake in 2005 with 80.000 deaths. This epic picture by Espen Rasmussen won World Press Photo award in 2006.Frank Buckles became the last surviving soldier in the world from the World War I. I was honoured to met him in 2004 when he was 103 years old. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.
News story in the Norwegian business paper Dagens Næringsliv in 2012.
News story from Ghana about the fantastic coffins they make there.
Meeting the Ku Klux Klan. 2002.
One of my Op Ed articles. This one about Afghanistan.New York is a great city to work and live in. I spent three years there. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.Covering the recall and race for guvernor in 2003 with Arnold Schwartzenegger. Foto: Thomas NilssonIn Kabul in january 2002, right after the Taliban has left the city and withdrew to the Tora Bora mountains with Osama bin Laden. Foto: Harald Henden.Interviewing one of the greatest athlets of all time, George Foreman. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.Sports is fun. Here we hooked up with NHL player Espen Knutsen in Columbus, Ohio.
Front pages. The one to the right was my first in VG, in January 1997.
More front pages. The one to the left is from 2012.
With this story in Fredriksstad Blad, «The hunt for Uncle Pete», I won the award for best feature article, by Østfold journalistlag in 2009.
Scary days covering the American Snipers in and around Washington D.C.
Document/ectended feature in Fredriksstad Blad about on of the biggest infrastucture projects in the districts.
The great siux indian tribe in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, is hunted by alcohol, drugs, illness and unemployment. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.Someone have to make the stars shine. At the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Foto: Thomas Nilsson.
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