ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author seeks to substantiate, and methodologically reflect upon, the practical implications of working with digitised source materials. He demonstrates and discusses new visibility by highlighting the trajectories of two Swedish journalists: Barbro Soller and Tom Selander. Soller plays a special role in this audio-visual history as well, as she in 1972 became the first formally employed environmental journalist on Swedish television. On a more general level, the practice of indexing Swedish press material was rather thorough in the 1960s. One key resource for historians is Svenska tidnings-artiklar, which indexes a large number of articles by topic and name. Soller’s journalistic role in the India series was that of the engaged reporter. She was part of a larger trend, towards a form of journalism that was more personal and activist in nature. Media scholars describe this in terms of a change in journalistic ideals during the 1960s, from objective reflection to critical investigation.
