Lynn Berger is a Dutch writer and journalist.

As care correspondent for the online journalism platform De Correspondent, she investigates how care manifests itself, what it does for us and what we need to care well.

She has written the books 'Ik werk al, Ik krijg er niet genoeg voor betaald (I already work (I just don't get paid for it))', published in 2023; 'Zorg, een betere kijk op de mens (Care. A better view of human beings)' (2022); and 'De tweede. Over de bazige eerste, rebelse tweede en andere mythes rondom het gezinIThe second. On the bossy first, rebellious second and other myths surrounding the family)' (2019).

Before De Correspondent, Lynn Berger wrote for Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland, among others. In 2021 she was journalist in residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Between 2006 and 2012 she studied at Columbia University in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on photography as a new medium and profession in the nineteenth century.

Lynn Berger

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Name
Lynn Berger
Title
Writer and journalist
Expertise
technology, culture
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam
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The State Secrets Files

  • Justice

BRUSSELS - In the Netherlands, it has been possible for years: a visit to the Nationaal Archief (National Archive) to find out what your grandfather or grandmother's wartime past was. In Belgium, however, these archives remain closed, for fear that 'certain passions' will flare up. Anoek Nuyens and Lynn Berger on the struggle of historians and archivists for more openness.