Hans Bergström was the chief editor of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden’s leading quality newspaper with around one million daily readers. Before his 14 years at Dagens Nyheter, he was editor-in-chief of the largest regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, Örebro. He left his operational position at Dagens Nyheter last autumn in order to do research and write a book on one of his core interests: the societal impacts of the biomedical revolution on longevity. He is a member of the board of Dagens Nyheter and continues to write as a senior columnist and science reporter. Bergström is an associate professor of political science at the University of Göteborg. His Ph.D. thesis was about governmental transitions. He has also done research on new media logic and its effect on political culture and trust. Bergström worked as a political consultant and speechwriter for the chairman and then Prime Minister of the liberal party. While at the Shorenstein Center, Bergström will work on his book about the biomedical revolution, and specifically examine what images of age convey in American and European newspapers.
Age in the Press
January 1, 2002
A paper by Hans Bergstrom, spring 2001 fellow, asks whether, in the face of an aging population, the print media is taking due notice? An aging society, and the issues that such a changing society brings, should affect the press in many arenas. It presents news as well as the potential to change news values.
