solanasaurus.com

Hello, I am a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist in New York.

I am the managing editor of Global Voices Online. Before, I was an editor with the global politics website openDemocracy.net for nearly five years. I also keep busy with freelance writing and radio, travel extensively, and taught a postgraduate journalism class about illegal immigration at New York University in 2005. I have an MA in international journalism from City University in London. And I am the founder and president of PuertoDansk: The Danish-Puerto Rican Society.

Here’s a list of some of the things I’ve written.

I also keep a healthy collection of plastic dinosaurs.

Previous blogging adventures include, several blogs for openDemocracy – including from the UN Summit in 2005, and from the World Social Forum in 2006. I blogged on women’s rights during a UN meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2007. At the time of the Iranian presidential elections in 2005, I was the editor of Iran Scan 1384, a blog about Iranian politics in English. And in 2004 I co-founded The World Speaks, a blog that kept track of non-American online campaigns about US politics. I blog in Danish about technology with my father Dan at Blogbyblog.dk.

You can email me on solana /at/ solanasaurus.com

Some press appearances:

Net gains and pains for journalism, BBC News, April 2008
Real News: Ethan Zuckerman & Solana Larsen, Open Source, March, 2008
Top 100 Talent, Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, Marts, 2008
The Storytellers: Solana Larsen, Contribute Magazine, February, 2008
An interview with Global Voices, BBC 5, Pods & Blogs, January 2008
Global Voices: Gratis nyheder fra hele verden, MediaWatch, December, 2007
Mediehack Podcast # 1: Solana Larsen, Global Voices, September 6, 2007
Anti-immigration policies across America, Indymedia, May 2007
“Website støtter miljøpolitik i Kina” (Audio), Harddisken, DR P1, April 2007
“Webdebat om global politik” (Audio), Harddisken, DR P1, Oct 2006
Mennsker og Medier (Audio), DR P1, interview with Lasse Jensen, Oct 2006
“Sæt de globale nyheder fri”, Information, Oct 2006
Interview med Solana Larsen (Audio), Jacob’s Podcast, Oct 2006
Cuba Libre?, Slate /Today’s Blogs, 2006
Cuba: Fidelwatch, Global Voices, 2006
Blogs por justicia social, APC, on seminar at WSF 2006 (+ Portguese)
Paris bloggers arrested (Video), BBC News 24
Iran Report: Blogging the election (Audio), PBS/BBC 2005
Net gets anti-terror talk going, BBC News 2005
openDemocracy goes Creative Commons, interview 2005
World finds voice on US vote online, BBC News, 2004
Net activism offers lessons for ministers, BBC News 2002 (+ Vietnamese)

My favourite review:

Snarkmarket:

“There is something awesome about the way openDemocracy’s Solana Larsen is blogging the big UN summit… I think it’s that she’s just doing it like any normal person would:

“‘I am sitting in the General Assembly hall, where the UN has conveniently provided wireless internet. The president of Georgia is speaking and no one is listening (sorry Georgia).’”