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Kirsten Sparre

Title:

News Coordinator

Organisation:

Play the Game

E-mail:

kirsten@playthegame.org

Website:

www.playthegame.org

Curriculum Vitae

Born1964.

Jobs
April 2005: News coordinator, Play the Game 
January 2003 - March 2005: Editor Danish Gymnastics Federation and freelance journalist with assignments for amongst others the Danish Union for Journalists and Centre for Journalism and Further Education.
August-December 2002: Project officer with the The Mid-career Institute for Journalists, Aarhus
1998-2002: Centre for Journalism and Further Education, responsible for research projects on journalism
1995: Lutheran World Service, Nepal, preparation of annual report
1992-94: Herning Folkeblad (local newspaper), summer temp filling in for local editors on vacation
1990: Bornholmeren (local newspaper) all-round journalism
1985-86: Ikast Avis (local newspaper) all-round journalism 

Education
1998: Ph.D in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK. Dissertation on potential peacemaking roles for journalists
1992: Diploma from European University Centre for Peace Studies, Austria
1991: Masters of Art in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK.
1990: Journalist from the Danish School of Journalism

Publications (a selection)
Politiet som kilde (The police as a media source), CFJE-report no. 4, 2002

Den glade journalistik. Om mediernes dækning af de kendte (Feelgood journalism. Media coverage of celebrities) 2001, Forlaget Ajour
(with Lars Kabel) 
"Megaphone diplomacy in the Northern Irish Peace Process", Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, summer 2001
"Conceptualising changes in war reporting", S+F - Vierteljahresschrift für Sicherheit und Frieden, heft 3/2000, Hamburg Universität, Tyskland