​I’M LOUISE KRÜGER
AND I’M A JOURNALIST AND ANTHROPOLOGIST

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The challenges facing Arctic communities are complex and multi-faceted, which is why, in 2023, I decided to move to Longyearbyen, Svalbard. I cover climate change, local voices and pollution, like this piece on Battling Plastic Pollution on Svalbard, or this explainer on What's next for the High Seas Treaty and what it would mean for the Arctic. 

 

In January 2024, I joined the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, being their first journalist based in Svalbard. I’ve attended beach cleanups, visited Ny Ålesund to document plastic in marine life, and spoken to researchers and locals whose perspectives are vital in grasping the effects of climate change and plastic pollution. 

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I have been lucky to receive funding several times. In February 2025, I attended both the Arctic Youth Conference and the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø. The conferences focused on adaptation strategies for climate change, indigenous communities and how to secure a just transition in energy projects. 

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​In November 2024, I got a travel grant from GRID-Arendal to cover the INC-5 and discussions on establishing a global plastic treaty in Busan, South Korea. While there was no treaty, I was given the chance to meet stakeholders, indigenous people and researchers who fight for cleaner oceans. While there, I also wrote about a family-run store that preserves a vital part of South Korea’s cultural heritage for Monocle 'Entrepreneurs'. 

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South Korea holds a special place in my heart. Only the year before, in 2023, I met Ho-jin, Bok-soon, the teachers at Geoje Haenyeo Academy and wrote about a fantastic community of impressive freedivers that for centuries have supported each other and protected the ocean, for The Guardian: ‘There is no mercy!’: the young women swapping South Korea’s work culture for freediving.

 

Before moving to Svalbard, I worked for D2 and DN Magasinet. I wrote about Lola Tagaeva, a journalist that fled Russia and works in excile, explorer Liv Arnesen and her polar bear encounter in Sibir and climate activist and farmer Kia Vulgaris. For Harvest Magazine, I wrote about tenting alone in winter: Solo fra Stryken og hjem and why we should still be out in nature during lockdown.

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I have also worked at NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Coperation), where I wrote about how covid hit the cut flower-chain, female protesters in Baghdad and artists protesting in Hong Kong, to name a few. I also worked as a researcher for the talkshow "Lindmo", and got guests like author Irene Kinunda Afriyie and marine biologist Pia Ve Dahlen on the screen. 

 

At VG, Norway's most read newspaper, I went to Lofoten to shoot Fire perler i Lofoten. I met Aksel Hennie: Sorg er en lunefull faen (and went skydiving with him), and Maud Angelica Behn: Jeg har opplevd så mye. I also interviewed and followed Mustafa Hasan's fight to stay in Norway and led first-page projects like life without smartphones and the landslide that hit Gjerdrum, to name a few. 

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In 2019, part of my masters degree at The University of Oslo, I worked six months at Telangana Today, a newspaper that follows politics and culture in Hyderabad, India. Here I was part of a brilliant all-womens team which focused on international news. This was also part of my fieldwork when writing my dissertation on female journalists and newsroom culture. 

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In 2015, as part of my dissertation at The University Of Edinburgh, I travelled to Mulki, South India and wrote about female surfers Paddling Through Patriarchy.​​​​​​