Kim Wall (journalist)
Kim Wall | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall 23 March 1987 Trelleborg, Sweden |
| Died | 10 August 2017 (aged 30) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2012–2017 |
Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall (23 March 1987 – 10 August 2017) was a Swedish journalist who worked as a freelancer for a range of English-language news outlets. She was murdered by the Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen in 2017 onboard Madsen's privately built midget submarine UC3 Nautilus.[1][2]
Early life
Kim Wall was born on 23 March 1987 in the small town of Trelleborg in Skåne County and grew up there.[3] Her parents were the photographer Joachim Wall and the journalist Ingrid Wall.[4] Her family eventually moved to Malmö.[5] Wall attended Malmö Borgarskola before studying at Lund University, the London School of Economics and Columbia University.[6][7][8]
Career
As a freelancer she wrote about diverse subjects including bio-hacking, vampyrism, fetishism, and radioactive garbage dumps on the Marshall Island to publications such as Time, Vice, The New York Times and The Guardian.[8][9][10]
In 2013 Wall won the "Future of Journalism" prize awarded by the Foreign Press Association of New York.[11] Together with Coleen Jose and Jan Hendrik Hinzel, Wall in 2016 won the digital Hansel Mieth prize for the German-language edition of her Marshall Island article, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015.[12]
She received grants from several outlets, including the European Journalism Centre,[13] the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,[14] The GroundTruth Project[15] and the African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative from the International Women's Media Foundation.[16]
Death
On 10 August 2017, Wall boarded the midget submarine UC3 Nautilus, in Køge Bay, Denmark, for a pre-arranged interview of its owner, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen.
Wall was reported missing by her partner Ole Stobbe after Nautilus failed to return to the harbour at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The submarine was found sunken the following morning and Madsen was arrested upon being rescued from the water. Between 21 August and 29 November, parts of Wall's dismembered body were found in different locations around the area. Convicted of her murder, Madsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 April 2018 by Copenhagen City Court[17] following a widely publicised trial.[18]
References
- ↑ "Arkiveret kopi". Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ↑ "Danish freelance journalist Kim Wall's head found in the sea of Copenhegen". News Nation. News Nation Network Pvt Ltd. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ↑ "Kim Wall: An 'exceptional' journalist remembered". August 23, 2017 – via BBC.
- ↑ Sveriges befolkning 1990 (in Swedish). Ramsele: Svensk arkivinformation (SVAR), Riksarkivet. 2011. ISBN 9789188366917. SELIBR 12076919.
- ↑ Amber Jamieson (23 August 2017). "Journalist Kim Wall Remembered As A "Bad Ass" By Her Friends". BuzzFeed.
- ↑ "'Hur illa det än var klagade hon aldrig'". SVT Nyheter. November 24, 2017.
- ↑ "Kim Wall" – via LinkedIn.
- 1 2 "Journalisten Kim Wall är försvunnen efter ubåtshaveriet". Aftonbladet. 12 August 2017.
- ↑ David Wertime (26 August 2017). "Journalists like Kim Wall deserve more support". Public Radio International.
- ↑ "Kim Wall". The Guardian.
- ↑ "The Future of Journalism" (PDF). FPA News. Foreign Press Association of New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ↑ Jan Hendrik Hinzel, Coleen Jose und Kim Wall (27 November 2015). "Exodus". Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ↑ Kim Wall og Caterina Clerici (22 April 2016). "Is This Tiny Island the Key to Restoring Haitian Tourism?". Slate.
- ↑ Kim Wall (1 January 2017). "The Weekly Package". Harper's Magazine.
- ↑ Kim Wall (13 June 2015). "Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators". The Guardian.
- ↑ Kim Wall (22 May 2016). "Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China's East African Investments". Vice.
- ↑ Orange, Richard (25 April 2018). "Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ↑ Orange, Richard (22 April 2018). "'Everyone is following it': millions gripped by Kim Wall murder trial as verdict nears". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.