Maria Nilsson Illustrator & Author

Maria Nilsson is Associate Professor of Journalism in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include visual storytelling, newsroom routines, the ethics of witnessing, visual representations of crises, and the history of photography. Her current research focuses on visual verification practices and disinformation and the truth claims of journalism in crisis coverage.

Anne Hege Simonsen is associate professor and head of department at Department for journalism and media studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research interests include visual journalism, global and international reporting, climate crisis and environment coverage, media and minorities, physical walls and boundaries and non-fiction writing. She has written, edited and contributed to several text books in journalism for the Norwegian market.