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Ingrid Svanfeldt’s Svanfeldtmedia was founded in 2007. Stefan Svanfeldt started his entrepreneurial carrier in 2008 with Bisamedia. Ingrid Svanfeldt is a journalist with a masters degree in media and communication from Helsinki university.
Before Svanfeldtmedia she worked as a journalist for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle, for the Swedish-speaking news program Tv-nytt. Stefan Svanfeldt is a cultural producer and product manager.
Stefan’s Bisamedia was founded as a music recording studio business, but later Stefan Svanfeldt worked as a photographer and editor for Svanfeldtmedia’s TV productions. From 2005 onward he built the couples music- and tv-editing studio next to their house in Siuntio.
In 2006 Ingrid Svanfeldt creates an educational concept, Video i klassen which becomes popular among teachers around Finland. In 2006-2013 Ingrid Svanfeldt’s Svanfeldtmedia works with Video i klassen – courses and film festivals together with Axxell vocational school.
During the same period, Svanfeldtmedia, in collaboration with Stefan Svanfeldt’s Bisamedia, sells in-depth news- and current affairs-programs to Yle’s current affairs tv-programs Närbild and OBS. They also produce radio programmes and shorter videos for companies, municipalities and organizations.
In 2016 Ingrid Svanfeldt gets a teacher diploma from Helsinki university and starts working part time as a teacher in journalism, at the University of Haaga – Helia in Helsinki and from 2015 onwards mainly at the Swedish-speaking journalism program at the Swedish School of Social science at the university of Helsinki.
Ingrid Svanfeldt has taken part in many international projects such as a trip to the Republic of Tuva in Russia 2013, the European Year of Volunteering in Latvia 2011-2012, the EU project for diversity in media, MEDIANE and a co-operation with a Portuguese radio journalist in Portugal in 2014 and an Internet café for refugees, which was organized in Svanfeldtmedia’s and Bisamedia’s studio in 2015-2016 by the local Sjundby traditionsförening.
Stefan Svanfeldt has throughout his professional life worked with import of audio- and video equipment and in 2018 Svanfield Oy is founded. Svanfield brings together both our expertise in import and media and our media production, everything under the same roof.
From 2020 onward Ingrid Svanfeldt has been involved in several projects relating to Belarus. It all started with an online-meeting in solidarity with Belarusian journalists who faced severe repressions from the Belarusian regime after the fraudulent presidential election in August 2020. The solidarity meeting continued once a week for more than 5 years until February 2026 when finally the journalists involved in the meeting had been released after 3 years in prison. The solidarity meetings inspired Ingrid Svanfeldt to produce a mobile game for Yle and a live role play about the lives of the Belarusian journalists. She has also produced a mail box wall where visitors could send cards to imprisoned journalists in Belarus together with Reporters Without Borders Finland at the media museum Merkki in Helsinki.