Line Vaaben is an immersive journalist and editor who holds the unique title of ‘existential editor’ at Danish newspaper Politiken. She produces reports on what it is like to be human and is the author of several books, among them an award-winning nonfiction book about femicides in Denmark.

In 2019 she wrote the leading Danish textbook on narrative journalism and she teaches the craft of storytelling to students and colleagues. In 2025 she was a runner up at The European Press Prize in the Distinguished Reporting category, and she was a 2023 Ochberg Fellow at The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University and a 2024/25 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

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