In 2024, TV 2 published Vintersportens siste dager, The Last Days of Winter Sports, a multi-part series on what climate change is doing to Norwegian winter sports. I built the editor and the data flow underneath it.

The platform is a mini-CMS in Sanity, with schemas shaped to this article series rather than to a generic blog. Journalists composed with custom object types: framed and full-bleed photos, paired-image scrollers, table data, bar graphs comparing ski-day projections under different climate scenarios, a searchable lookup of 34 named ski resorts. Each block had its own validation and its own rendering. The schema was the editorial grammar.

The presentation is a SvelteKit app fetching content from Sanity with GROQ queries, with images served through cdn.sanity.io. My piece was the platform side: the schemas, the queries, the data flow. The journalists logged into a separate Sanity studio to do the writing; full integration with TV 2's main publishing rig was a possibility we left for later, and it was the right call.

The journalism is by Magnus Wikan, Elisabeth Teige, and Fredrik Fjellvang. The photographs are by Daniel Sannum Lauten and Elias Engevik. The frontend is by Marius Pedersen. The design is by Christoffer Sandell.

The project shipped as a one-off and stayed that way. The next iteration of long-read journalism at TV 2 wasn't built on top of this codebase; it was a separate system, picked up and grown by colleagues for the form they needed next. That, in retrospect, is the right shape for this kind of work. Move fast, get the thing to prod, get eyeballs on it, learn what works, and let the next iteration be its own thing rather than a refactor of the last one. Refactor-as-a-default slows everything down.

The most rewarding part has been watching the ideas travel. Vidar Håland took some of the techniques and concepts from this project and built a much more versatile, more integrated system for long-read journalism at TV 2. His platform powered, among other stories, the Russian Cabins investigation, which won SKUP, Norway's investigative-journalism prize. I had no direct hand in that; it was just very cool to see.

Read it: Vintersportens siste dager.