Greta Thunberg guest-stars as editor of Swedish newspaper

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg took over Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter for a day. She used the editorial space to highlight climate change stories and called the crisis "humanity's most challenging problem."

Climate activist Greta Thunbergtook over as editor-in-chief of Swedish newspaperDagens Nyheterfor just one day on Sunday. The paper, Sweden's biggest morning daily, sells about 350,000 copies daily and reaches some 1 million people online.

The teen activist and leader of the Fridays for Future youth movement used her one-day tenure at the paper to highlight climate-related articles and some of her own writing.

Thunberg has often criticized mainstream media outlets for failing to give the necessary attention to the climate change crisis. But earlier this year she met with the staff of Dagens Nyheter and engaged with them on the topic.

After the meeting and res

ponding to feedback from its own readers, editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski decided to give Thunberg the editorialspacefor one day to highlight the topic.

"Handing over responsibility for Sweden's largest daily newspaper to a minor, an uneducated activist is completely incomprehensible. It's crazy. If it were not for the absurd fact that we are

in anexistential crisis that is still ignored by our society," Thunbergwrote in an editorial.

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Wolodarski and Thunberg distributed the cover of the issue via Twitter, which had the headline"These are facts, not opinions," along with a large photo of a crater in Siberia, where the

permafrost is melting.

Thunberg's edition will featurearticles such as that of a village in Russia's Arctic at the shores of the Barents Sea, where the ice has disappeared.

In the arts and culture section, Thunberg engages in a conversation with SirDavid Attenborough, a famous British naturalist,on raising awareness about climate change. The section also features a commentary by acclaimed author Margaret Atwood.

Thunberg used her editorial capacity in a limited way, she said on Twitter. But she did register her thoughts on the matter in Sunday's edition, stating that the climate crisis is the most difficult and the most challenging problem that humanity has ever confronted.

She said she hoped that democracy and education could be the mechanisms with which to engage and solve the crisis.

Thunberg's takeover is not her first. A year ago, she was invited to be guest editor for a day atBritishbroadcaster BBC's Radio 4.

But not all media outlets are open to such an endeavor. Anna Careborg, editor-inchief of DagensNyheter's Stockholm rival, Svenska Dagbladet, criticizedthe initiative, saying that it risked blurring the line between news and opinionjournalism.

Greta Thunberg's photo appeared in the Dagens Nyhete when she served as guest editor-in-chief