Introducing our journalist: Petja Pelli. Petja has co-written episode 2 of Medea in which you will also hear him as the voice of "Homer".
Petja Pelli, 31, is a journalist working for the Finland's largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. He works there as the second editor of the foreign news desk. In addition to that he follows European politics and France in particular. In December he interviewed Marine Le Pen, the far right candidate, and in May he will be travelling to France to follow the elections that might change the course of Europe's history.
Before his current work Pelli has worked in Helsingin Sanomat as a foreign news journalist, video journalist and as a news anchor for channel Nelonen news. In national broadcasting company YLE he contributed for the long time news magazine program Ajankohtainen kakkonen.
Pelli has a master's degree from the University of Tampere in social sciences where he majored in Journalism and Mass communication and minored in history. He has also studied in Lyon, France at Sciences Po -university.
During his university years Pelli acted in and composed music for many plays of Tampereen ylioppilasteatteri, the local student theatre. After that he has also worked on many different poesy pieces with actor and poem reader Mirjami Heikkinen. His most recent experience with performing arts was the Musta Laatikko -show prepared by Helsingin Sanomat for Kansallisteatteri, The Finnish National Theatre. Musta Laatikko is a journalistic theatre performance, a "pop up magazine" where ten journalists hop on stage to tell about a story that they have been working with. The shows where all sold out in the fall and this spring they moved to the main stage of the National theatre.
In Medea, Pelli gets the chance to combine his work and his long time hobby in a new, creative way.
