MADDY SAVAGE | Journalist, Presenter, Producer.
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ABOUT

Working as a BBC staff journalist in London for a decade, Maddy reported for UK and global TV news shows and anchored BBC World Service radio programmes reaching 50 million people a week. Since 2014, she’s been based in Stockholm, working as a freelance foreign correspondent and documentary producer for media including the BBC, Times Radio, The Telegraph, NPR, TIME, Monocle and HuffPost.

 

Maddy’s recent reporting has focussed on Nordic innovation, sustainability and social trends. She has produced and presented more than 25 BBC radio documentaries including Meet the Neighbours, about solutions to loneliness, Sweden’s Green Power Struggle, scrutinising the impact of Sweden’s rapid green transition, and Super Rich Swedes. Maddy hosted three seasons of The Stockholmer Podcast, interviewing inspiring entrepreneurs. She was voted one of the 100 most impactful people in the Nordic startup scene and frequently works as a moderator at tech and media events.

FEATURED WORK

A father on parental leave in Stockholm.

Sweden’s pioneering parental leave

 

Sweden introduced shared parental leave 50 years ago. So how has it been used?

BBC / podcast

Meet the neighbours

 

People living in this block of flats sign a contract to spend at least two hours a week together to tackle loneliness.

BBC / podcast
Anti-shooting campaigners in Stockholm.

Sweden: Living with guns and gangs

 

How Sweden became a European hotspot for guns and gangs.

BBC / Bespoken Media / podcast
Sami producer Maxida Märak.

The reindeer herders fighting a mine

 

Indigenous Sami reindeer herders say their traditional culture and way of life is being threatened by new industries.

BBC / Bespoken Media / video

Crisis at Northvolt

 

Staff layoffs and cancelled orders. We find out what’s going on at Europe’s largest electric battery factory.

BBC / podcast

Violent partners: Iceland’s strategy

 

Iceland is pioneering a new approach to tackle domestic violence

BBC / podcast

Stockholm Wood City

 

The world’s largest neighbourhood made from timber is being built in a Stockholm suburb.

TIME / article
Entrepreneur Konrad Bergström

Super Rich Swedes

 

Why is Sweden home to so many billionaires, despite its reputation for equality?

BBC / PodLit / podcast

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