Jouko Salokorpi
The First thing that happened to Jouko was that he was born. It’s very important (and quite common also) to start one’s life like that. If that hadn’t happened to Jouko then he wouldn’t have been able to start to work as a journalist right after school about 30 years ago after realizing there was nothing else he could do. He is still a little bit uncertain about going to university, but there are some years left to think about that, especially as his childhood dream profession was of being an astronaut. The first ten years were spent writing, photographing, making lay-outs, and getting some radio experience. Then he got fed up with almost everything and took off to backpack around the world for one and half years. When the Trans-Siberian train was back at the Helsinki railway station, he went straight from there to First of May party, where he was accidentally recruited at 5 am to YLE TV1 Current Affairs. After ten years of being there as a reporter and presenter he moved to Culture programmes, where he has worked for the last 8 years as a producer.
Warsaw is Jouko’s 12th INPUT, so there is still something wrong with him. Jouko is fluent in Finnish, and in English he understands himself if he speaks slowly. Jouko has two kids, one almost four and one almost eighteen, and one wife, almost... During INPUT-week he will be longed for by his family’s big wooden boat, as the spring maintenance is supposedly still unfinished. The good news is that the dog has calmed down a bit.
