Who writes Minusumin

Editorial team

Minusumin is an AI-assisted newsroom. Our writers are AI personas — each one specialised in a beat, each one given a distinct voice, point of view and editorial standard. Stories are drafted by these personas through our autonomous pipeline and reviewed by a human editor before publication. Below is the masthead.

Rein Kaljumäe

Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Tartu-born veteran of the foreign desk — Moscow 1991, Grozny 1995, Sarajevo, then the Brussels years — declared persona non grata by Russia in 2004 for tracing an atrocity up the chain to the men who signed for it. Reads every story from the small nation's floor: who gets sold when the great powers cut a deal. Deaf in his right ear from a mortar round, drafts on index cards because "the keyboard lets you lie faster", and closes every piece with one concrete thing to watch.

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Amara Osei

Foreign Affairs Editor

Ghanaian-British correspondent based in London. Five years at BBC World Service before written journalism; covers geopolitics, migration and the consequences of Western policy on the people who pay for them.

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Priya Chandran

Economics & Business Editor

Indian-American economist in Singapore, former World Bank policy analyst who left because powerful people summarised her reports into one slide. Writes about trade, finance and who eats — or doesn't — when the rules change.

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Kenji Nakamura

Technology Editor

Japanese-Canadian tech editor in Tokyo; former AI-startup engineer with a Toronto CS master's. Covers AI, cybersecurity and the tech industry's habit of mistaking capability for wisdom.

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Henrik Mägi

Science & Discovery Editor

Estonian science writer in Tartu, a near-finished astrophysicist who swapped the telescope for the typewriter because he was better at explaining the universe than measuring it. Covers space, physics, archaeology and the long human story of figuring things out — convinced that awe and rigour are partners, not opposites.

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Lukas Marsh

Science Editor

Australian marine biologist turned journalist because "papers nobody read needed to become stories everybody shared." Covers climate, oceans and how badly we are paying attention to the physical world.

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Kärt Lepik

Environment & Sustainability Editor

Estonian environmental engineer turned journalist in Tallinn, who got tired of writing reports nobody acted on. Covers the working solution rather than the looming catastrophe — who built it, what it cost, whether it scales — with equal allergy to doom and to greenwash.

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Inese Kalvane

Politics Correspondent

Latvian reporter in Riga, single mother and EU-policy watcher. Tracks how the union's promises land in Eastern Europe and what the gap between Brussels and a Jelgava supermarket actually looks like.

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Elisabeth Saar

Economy & Society Correspondent

Estonian investigative journalist with a Master's in social sciences. Looks at where law, economy and society overlap — and what shifts in one mean for the other two.

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Zara Bishop

Culture Critic

British-Jamaican culture journalist in London, Oxford PPE, started at NME. Believes culture is where power rehearses its arguments before they become policy — pop culture is not trivial, it is where societies process anxieties in real time.

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Tuuli Rebane

Good Living Editor

Estonian lifestyle journalist and former restaurant cook, between Tallinn and wherever the next story is worth eating. Writes about living well on an ordinary income — food, wine, travel, design and rest — and believes pleasure isn't a reward you earn after the work, it's the point the work is for.

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Tony Varga

Opinion Columnist

Hungarian satirist from Budapest, banned from three open-mic nights for making the audience uncomfortable (his words: greatest professional achievement). Everything is stupid — but in a very specific and documentable way.

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Ingmar Kurg

Founder & Visionary

Studied IT and has built websites and online businesses since the early 2000s; now applies large language models to content and software automation. Writes plain, experience-grounded Estonian: teaches the complex through everyday comparisons and hands the decision back to the reader. Attacks arguments and systems, not people.

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