Jens Finnäs
Chief Executive Officer at Newsworthy
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJens Finnäs is a veteran data and climate journalist turned founder-CEO with 12+ years of experience building data-driven newsroom products and services from Stockholm. Since launching Newsworthy in 2017 and founding Sweden’s first freelance agency for data journalism, he has helped major Swedish and Finnish outlets such as Aftonbladet, Sveriges Radio and Helsingin Sanomat turn complex data into engaging stories and visualizations. His background in political science and journalism, combined with hands-on work as a robot journalist since 2016, gives him a rare mix of editorial judgment, automation expertise and product leadership. Often operating as a consultant and freelancer, he’s skilled at training newsrooms and scaling data workflows across organizations while keeping climate reporting rigor front and center.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of social sciences, Political science, Master of social sciences, Political science at Helsingin yliopisto / University of HelsinkiBach.Soc.Sc., Journalism, Bach.Soc.Sc., Journalism at Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan vid Helsingfors universitet
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (78)
pgsql10
data-journalism10
api10
rest10
database10
postgresql-database10
voting10
carbon-emissions10
pg10
server10
sql9
postgresql9
http9
haskell9
rest-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jensfinnas/bra_scraper
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:45 commits, 14 pushes in 6 years 4 months
jensfinnas/saco-inkomstjamforaren
Nov 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:41 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
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