Most people never see the code that helps deliver the news.
They see headlines. Breaking tickers. Pull quotes. Images from war zones. A journalist’s byline, bold at the top.
But somewhere behind it all, there’s a developer — like me — patching bugs, building tools, and quietly making sure the news gets out.
I work at SVT, Sweden’s public broadcaster. My job isn’t to chase stories, but to build the systems that help others do it. The content management tools, the media pipelines, the databases that hold decades of history. I don’t write articles — I write the code that lets them live, breathe, and reach millions.
This is what it’s like to work as a developer in public media. It’s not glamorous. It’s not fast-paced startup chaos. But it matters — deeply. And that’s why I keep showing up.