Merja Myllylahti

During my career I have had many major scoops and front pages, have covered news on live TV and have written tons of editorials and comments. I have been blacklisted by investment bank Goldman Sachs - when they did not like my stories; managed to make Jorma Ollila, former CEO of Nokia, very angry; met and interviewed Osama bin Ladens brother Hassan and took abuse from Lord Archer.

lontoocalling.com

I am skilled multimedia journalist with experience on online, TV and print news production and have spent most of my career in London. I am passionate about online media and launched in January 2009 London based news site for the Finnish audience called lontoocalling.com. The news site has been gaining popularity in great speed.

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My research paper "Taking the paper out of news: A case study of Taloussanomat, Europe's first online-only newspaper" won 'best paper' at the International Symposium for Online Journalism in Austin, Texas in April 2009. Check the news story on the website of London City University.

The full article of my research (co-written by Neil Thurman) was published 16th of April 2009 on the Journalism Studies website. The free PDF version of the article can be loaded here Full article.

Journalism.co.uk has a very comprehensive article about the study as well as Columbia Journalism Review.

You can find the Finnish Press Release about the study Lehdistotiedote here and get the English version here Press Release.

The world media was writing about the study widely. Articles about it were published for example in Wall Street Journal, Independent and Guardian.

Launch of London based blog and news site lontoocalling.com on 8th of January 2009.