Name:	Joakim Nordlund
Profession:	Journalist and Photographer
Residence:	Råneå (Luleå), Sweden
Family:	Wife and our two children

Geographical working region

All of the Barents region with focus on Västerbotten and Norrbotten (Northern Sweden)

Writing focus

Sports, Hunting (wild game), general reporting

Photography

Mainly sports but also current news items. Also do portraits and wedding shoots. I don’t compromise quality and therefore work only with the best that Canon has to offer regarding cameras and lenses.

Other assignments

Guest lecturer at Journalism Program, Kalix Folkhögskola in Kalix, Sweden. Consultant when regarding the meeting and managing of the media, photo services for company events, quick start courses in the craft and art of writing, how to express yourself, and how to write articles that are easily read and will be read in their entirety. Current periodical clients: Aftonbladet, Land, Hemtrevligt, Jaktmarker and Fiskevatten, Kyrkans Tidning, et al.

Other clients

Local county governments, schools, companies and private persons.

Professional background

I was raised in an entrepreneur family that operated a transportation company that my grandfather started in 1926. Studied Physiotherapy and worked with rehabilitation in Norway (4 years) and Sweden. Went back to school for two more years and studied journalism and have since been working as a journalist since 2001. In 2003 I became self-employed and founded Presspro Media, where I have been working since. Other activities: I sing and I am half decent with a guitar. I competed with sled dogs in Alaska for six months and then worked with the Göteborgs Stadsteater (City Theater of Gothenburg, Sweden) when I returned from Alaska.

Interesting tidbit

I have a strong penchant for good cuisine and if someone tempts me with elk soup and dumplings I will be there…regardless of the distance. Favorite music experience: Probably was when two good friends and I performed a series of Advent concerts in some small chapels in the Råneå area. I remember clearly and fondly, an evening in Forsnäs Chapel one bitingly cold December evening. The inside of the chapel was lit only with candles and there was not a seat to be spared. The audience was enthralled with the music and engaged during the whole event. It was magical evening.

What makes life worth living

My common-law spouse and our children, naturally. A late fishing trip on Hovlös lake which I end with a wood fired sauna and a dip in the lake. Or a jaunt with a “kick-sled” on a winter day with my daughter, or a round of golf in Kalix one early morning when the birds have just awoken. And of course, I love my job.

An epiphany

An unknown passion for the game of bandy. Even though at times it is impossible to see the ball, it is a sport I have come to love since it has something genuine and real about itself. Where I grew up there wasn’t a bandy club in the area, only hockey. But when I was ordered to report from a bandy rink, I was smitten.

A journalist memory:

I remember the first time I met hockey great Peter Forsberg. Everyone was pulling at him wanting his attention. He signed at least fifty autographs, but he gave everyone his time. He seemed so friendly and confident in his role and he had no problem relaxing and showing some humor, regardless of the stressful situation

Readings

Rolf Nilsén’s chronical in Norrbottens Kurriren. “Roffe” was brutally assaulted when he tried to intervene and help an unknown woman that was being assailed by a man in the middle of the street one late night in Luleå. His knee will never be as it was before the incident, but that doesn’t hamper his writing…he still does that better than the rest of them.

Otherwise I think that Ingmar Bergman’s The Best Intentions (Den Goda Viljan) is one of the finest novels about love ever written. And the television series with Samuel Fröhler and Pernilla August as protagonists is maybe the best work ever shown on Swedish television. Another epic that can be measured with The Best Intentions is the television version of The Godfather (shown on Swedish television in 1993 or 1994, I believe). Since I then, I have been trying to find this version, but without luck.