From love and death to climate anxiety — Nieman Fellow Line Vaaben, Class of 2025, covers the things that keep you up at night

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Line Vaaben, right, interviews a group of teens on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2021 for a story about aspiring rap musicians. Vaaben, NF ’25, is an “existential editor” for Politiken, one of Denmark’s largest news outlets, where she focuses on human-interest stories “rooted in, or connected to, something relevant in the news or the cultural zeitgeist.” Sigrid Nygaard