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• Interviews
• Columns.
• New in Town- a mixed bag of interviews, tips, lengthier odds and ends and humorous articles.

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Michael Sandelson (Editor in Chief)

Michael Sandelson was born in London. He was educated as a pianist/composer and piano teacher, and has been performing, composing and teaching for the last 16 years.

In September 2007, he started working as a freelance writer for Stavanger Aftenblad’s English section, contributing columns and an entertainment guide on a weekly basis, together with translating some news stories.

In January 2008, he also was engaged as a freelancer for INMagasinet, interviewing and writing articles in Norwegian.

He began studying Internet journalism at the London School of Journalism in May 2008.

Since the middle of February 2009, he has been working as an editor/journalist and building up his own online newspaper, “The Foreigner”.

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Ramona Tancau (Copy Editor)

Ioana — Ramona Tancau was born in Miercurea — Ciuc, Romania in 1987. She graduated the philology–French section at Alexandru Papiu–Ilarian High School in Targu Mures. She continued her studies as an undergraduate at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), where she double-majored in Journalism and Mass Communication and Political Science and International Relations.

As a recent graduate, intrigued by the Public Relations and Advertising fields, Ramona looks into the prospect of pursuing a master’s degree in Media/Communications Management in one of the top UK Universities. She believes that pursuing such a degree in the UK will allow her to further polish her interpersonal skills, developed during her four summers of work in the US along with the years of living in Bulgaria, and apply them in the usage of various media outlets.

She has been a member of several church choirs since the age of eight and has been part of the AUBG Choir for three years. She is an avid defender of the “Healthy mind in a healthy body” saying, since she has experienced the overall benefits of regular physical exercise. Her passion for cinema developed with the desire to enjoy an exhilarating visual and audio experience. Her drive for copy editing comes from her general “picky” approach towards everything in her proximity. She believes constructive criticism is the key to success since it always allows people to improve.

Oana Pintilie

Oana is a 22 year old Romanian girl who has just graduated from the Journalism School “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from Iaşi. She worked for Cuzanet, the university’s press agency for a while where she covered areas such as politics, administration, social campaigns that aimed to promote talented children that had no money, and sports. She also has experience with television documentaries. Being a journalist in Romania requires, amongst other things, some compromises. She believes words still have power and that it takes a lot of work and talent to make them valuable.

Some months ago she was an Erasmus student in Norway and since then she has grown very fond of this country. She has become “obsessed” with learning Norwegian, which is always a challenge.

Other than that, Oana has a passion for foreign languages and can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian and a bit of Portuguese at the moment. But she is not planning on stopping here. Her dreams and expectations, as naive as it may sound, are linked to the power of doing good things. She hopes that someday she can say she helped someone through her work.

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Alexandra Spinu

Alexandra Spinu was born in a small town in south-eastern Romania in 1987. She began her studies at ‘Carol I’ High School, performing well at English and Romanian Language and Literature.

She then went on to the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iaşi’s Journalism School, and has also spent six months as an Erasmus student at Volda University College in Norway.

Whilst studying, she has worked as a cultural reporter for Cuzanet – the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University’s press agency – as well as a sports reporter for the radio in her home town.

Besides writing, she enjoys learning new languages, and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. She is currently learning Norwegian.

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Jess Chandler

Jess Chandler is a freelance writer from London, currently living and working in Oslo. She has a BA in English Literature from University College London and has had articles published in The Times Literary Supplement, Bookdealer, Film International, The London Magazine, The Camden New Journal, Se7en Global and The Literateur. She is the Assistant Editor of Brief, a bilingual Oslo-based magazine promoting education and internationalisation in the fields of art and design.

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Katarzyna Inez Dawczyk

Inez Dawczyk was born in 1987 in a small town called Żary, in the Western part of Poland.

She received her education from Brent Collage in London, has been an exchange student in Oslo and Volda, and graduated with a BA degree in journalism and communication with majors in creative writing, theater, film, and TV from the University of Wrocław this year.

She’s had a placement at the on-line portal “dlastudneta.pl” in the department of art, local TV station “Styk”, and was part of the team at the International KAN Festival in Worcław in 2008 and 2009.

She’s also she written a few articles for the Polish and Swedish Bullion, and is best at photojournalism, as she finds it interesting to write stories through the photos.

Right now she’s doing her internship at The Foreigner.

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Select Performers / Ian Anderson Gray (Webmasters)

Select Performers are the webmasters for The Foreigner. Set up back in 2003, Select Performers have built and managed scores of web sites (Michael Sandelson, Edward Gregson, Teleri-Sian, The Glasgow Art Club and Landmark Pensions). The Foreigner was built completely from scratch using a bespoke database-driven content management system- built especially for The Foreigner.

Select Performers is a family business, and partner Ian Anderson Gray has been the main designer/developer on The Foreigner. As well as an interest in web development, databases and front-end design, Ian is a professional singer and teacher. He lives in Manchester, UK with his wife, the composer Helen Seddon-Gray.

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The Walrus

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