Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou - Photojournalist
Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou
Photojournalist
Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou is a photojournalist based in London. She shoots, edits and produces videos and photos for CNN International’s news and features teams.
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Every Saturday night throughout the year, Robert Wirehag – a pastor and former youth soccer player for Swedish club IK Sirius – arranges “night soccer” in Gottsunda, a suburb of Uppsala, Sweden’s fourth-largest city, as a way to help fight gang recruitment.
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Every Saturday night throughout the year, Robert Wirehag – a pastor and former youth soccer player for Swedish club IK Sirius – arranges “night football” in Gottsunda, a suburb of Uppsala, Sweden’s fourth-largest city.
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About
Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou is a photojournalist based in London.
She shoots, edits and produces videos and photos for CNN International’s news and features teams.
Prior to joining CNN, she produced and directed feature documentaries as well as short-form online content for the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. She also freelanced for video production agencies in London and Beijing.
Hou graduated with a Masters in International Multimedia Journalism from the University of Bolton. She is half-Taiwanese, half-Swedish, and has lived in Sweden, Germany and China. She speaks fluent German, Chinese, Swedish and Norwegian in addition to English.
