Jenny Nordberg, Sweden and the United States, is a New York-based investigative reporter and author.
A profiled foreign policy analyst and correspondent for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, her investigations have also been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and in the U.S. editions of ELLE and Vogue.
A Bellingcat-trained visual investigations reporter, she has led large-scale investigations in the field, most recently into formerly occupied territories of Ukraine. Her topics range from U.S. politics and policy, to finance, tech, corruption and war.
As a correspondent in Afghanistan and Iran, she broke the story of “bacha posh” — on how girls live disguised as boys under gender apartheid.
The cross-border investigation was published in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, and expanded into the book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan, published in 2015 and translated into twelve languages.
At the New York Times’ investigations unit, Nordberg worked on projects such as examining cover-ups of fatal accidents freight railroad system — a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting — and U.S. State Department collusion with rebels in Haiti. She has produced and written several television documentaries, on the U.S. Army’s intelligence collaborators in Iraq, Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation and financial crime in Eastern Europe.
In Sweden, Nordberg founded the first investigative team at the national broadcasting’s radio division, where she supervised projects on terrorism and government corruption.
Lecturing at dozens of U.S. universities, she has also appeared on NPR, WNYC, MSNBC and The Jon Stewart Show, and is a regular contributor of foreign policy commentary to Swedish Broadcasting. As an adjunct professor, she created and taught a class on international investigations at New York University’s Journalism program.
She has won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors; IRE, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, as well as Sweden’s investigative reporting’s grand prize Guldspaden and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia and The Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Jenny Nordberg holds a B.A. in law and journalism from Stockholm University and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
