Johannes Wahlström

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Johannes Wahlström (actually: Johann Wahlström ; born September 14, 1981 in Israel ) is an Israeli- Swedish media scientist and journalist and editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Tromb .

biography

Johannes Wahlström was founded in 1981 as the son of Russian - Israeli writer and translator Israel Shamir , of the far-right anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers is assigned scene in Israel was born. He grew up in Jaffa , Moscow and Stockholm . He studied media studies at Stockholm University and graduated with a master's degree. After graduating, Wahlström moved back to Israel and Palestine. There he founded the IMEMC ( International Middle East Media Center ) news agency .

Johannes Wahlström reported as a correspondent for Swedish newspapers from Ukraine , Russia and Palestine . Since 2005 he has been living in Sweden again and has worked as a journalist for various Swedish media, including Sveriges Television , Aftonbladet and Ordfront magazine . He works on freedom of speech and press for the Alternative Information Center in Palestine and the Swedish Institute in Russia . He is currently the editor-in-chief of Tromb magazine . Wahlström's journalistic work is controversial in Sweden. In an article for "Ordfront" in 2005, he proposed that the Swedish media were being manipulated by "Jewish interests". Three of the journalists he interviewed for the story immediately complained to the editor, showing that their quotes had been grossly falsified. Heléne Löw, PhD in philosophy and leading Swedish fascism researcher, said the article written by Wahlström contained "all the elements one can find in a classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory." The complaints were successful. The story was immediately withdrawn, Ordfront apologized. In November 2010, Wahlström and the journalist Dan Josefsson published research on the influential Swedish media group Bonnier in a paper for the Bonnier competition Schibstedt . In 2013 Wahlström was the director and producer of the film "Mediastan" commissioned by Wikileaks

Wikileaks

Wahlström came into contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange through friends in 2008 and was involved in the publication of American embassy cables that came to be known as Cablegate . For him, the political content of the leaked information justified its dissemination. According to Wahlström, it would have been “journalistic misconduct” not to publish it. He exposed himself in the media and on websites as a member of Wikileaks . He was the only Swedish journalist with access to all of the material and produced articles and television reports for Swedish newspaper and television media. He criticized the Swedish media for their power-political view of the world.

Newspaper distribution

Johannes Wahlström is the spokesman for the newspaper distribution network Samworks (cooperation), which was founded as a protest against the perceived monopoly of the Tidsam distribution , which sells most weekly and monthly magazines in Sweden and earns high fees.

Wahlström in Israel

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Wahlström was arrested by the Israeli military in May 2002 when he broke through a cordon around the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which was then sealed off as part of an action by the International Solidarity Movement .

He is co-founder of the international-Palestinian news agency IMEMC. As an Israeli citizen, Wahlström was prevented from continuing to work at IMEMC and was denied access to the office. His press card was no longer renewed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johan Berggren, Israels regim styr svenska medier archive link ( memento of the original from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (in Swedish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ordfront.se
  2. ↑ a b Friday on December 23, 2010: "An invented concept". Retrieved August 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ From: Jungle World, 2011 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2011/08/42688.html
  4. ↑ Wikileaks
  5. ↑ Aftonbladet 20101201, s. 8 "Svenske journalists: Uppgifterna är oerhört allvarliga"
  6. ↑ SvD torsdag 2 december 2010 s. 8th
  7. ↑ Maria-Pia Boëthius, "Femte folkmakten granskar de styrande", ETC # 48, 2010
  8. ↑ Dagens Nyheter January 26, 2010 p. 42
  9. ^ Note dated May 1, 2004 from Yahoo Groups on the launch of the IMEMC website. Retrieved August 30, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Wahlström, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahlström, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-Swedish media scholar and journalist and editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Tromb
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel